Dr. Roy Perlis answers the question: 'Bipolar Disorder & 'Regular' Depression?' — -- Question: How is bipolar disorder different from unipolar depression or 'regular' depression? Answer: Both ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers investigate whether reproducible signatures of metabolomic biomarkers could be obtained from dried blood spot samples to distinguish between ...

Ross Baldessarini and an international group of investigators have analyzed the morbidity associated with depressive disorders in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. Levels of ...

Patients with asthma and major depressive disorder had more negative beliefs about their asthma, worse treatment adherence ...

To an outsider, bipolar disorder and depression might seem very similar, with periods of intense sadness, hardly any energy to do the things you used to love and difficulty concentrating on work, ...

It's a misconception that bipolar disorders are an up-down, up-down experience. The mood storms are more likely to be crashes into depression, and it's particularly so in bipolar II disorder. A ...

Patients with depressive symptoms and asthma had elevated levels of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor in association ...

Women's Health. 2010;6(4):565-576. Complementary and herbal medicines represent pharmacologic treatment alternatives for depression and are thought to have fewer adverse effects, although there is ...