Bipolar disorder significantly impacts the lives of approximately 40 million individuals worldwide, yet the underlying brain differences driving this psychiatric condition have historically been ...

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Brain imaging can identify young people at risk for ... Treatment with mood-stabilising drugs can help keep a patient's mood within a normal range. "We know that bipolar is primarily a biological ...

In people with bipolar disorder, an imaging technique called functional MRI, or fMRI, reveals changes in the brain's resting activity ... neighboring cells. Adding normal PLXNB1 into the ...

Wald says that structural differences in the brain are similar between those with mood disorders, including bipolar disorder ... and allow patients with both diseases to live somewhat normal lives.

"We're working to build a database of bipolar disorder-specific brain changes, which may ultimately improve both diagnosis and treatment of the condition," Nabulsi said. Most neuroimaging studies ...

Changes in the bipolar brain Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric ... forge important connections with neighboring cells. Adding normal PLXNB1 into the patient’s cells allowed the neurites to ...