With bipolar disorder, anxiety may be part of an episode or a separate condition — and that distinction matters. Key ...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can impact daily functioning and behavior. Although bipolar disorder is a chronic ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. While many of us have heard of or ...

Both schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia cause psychosis. With schizoaffective disorder, however, you may also have prominent mood symptoms. In schizophrenia, people don’t typically have mood ...

People with bipolar disorder tend to experience ups and downs that last longer than typical mood swings and significantly interfere with their day-to-day life. Lots of people experience mood swings ...

Grandiosity, entitlement, and self-focus can appear in both bipolar and narcissistic personality disorders, but the timing ...

But for a portion of pregnant and postpartum women who screen positive for depression, the true diagnosis is something else. Around 1 in 5 women initially diagnosed with postpartum depression will ...

Subtle changes before a mood episode are often easiest to spot in hindsight. Here’s what to watch for. Managing a complex, brain-based mood disorder like bipolar requires self-awareness and a measure ...

The first time Shalene Gupta had a doctor suggest that she might have a mood disorder related to her menstrual cycle, she was indignant. “Another doctor and I were like, ‘No. That’s really sexist,’” ...

How would you define learning? When we learn something, there is a relatively permanent change in our behavior that comes about because of our experiences with the world around us. Learning allows us ...