In her honour, this Kelowna father founded the Dakota Bipolar Awareness Foundation (dakotafoundation.ca). March is Mental ...

Bipolar Disorder Day was observed in the state capital on Monday to raise awareness about this mental health condition, focusing on symptoms, treatment, and early intervention. A screening and ...

A new genetic study reveals that our capacity to enjoy music is partly inherited, with 54% of music enjoyment variability ...

Everyone experiences occasional ups and downs. However, dramatic mood swings and emotional instability that disrupt relationships, work or school and daily living could signal something more: ...

A variant burden analysis for bipolar disorder was performed using gene-based aggregation of loss-of-function variants in whole-genome sequencing data from Iceland and the UK Biobank; the association ...

In an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority.

Schizophrenia affects millions worldwide, yet its causes remain one of the greatest medical mysteries. In an exclusive ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, reveal today in Nature Genetics associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants in two genes.

If you live with both bipolar and alcohol or substance use, it’s essential to get help for both — not just one. At one time, ...

Kari Stefansson CEO of deCODE genetics  withThorgeir Thorgeirsson and Vinicius Tragante, scientists at deCODE genetics and ...

Kari Stefansson and Thorgeir Thorgeirsson discuss the paper -Rare loss-of-function variants in HECTD2 and AKAP11 confer risk of bipolar disorder - published in Nature Genetics.

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have identified associations between bipolar disorder and rare loss-of-function variants ...