Rapid cycling is uniformly viewed by clinicians as being the variant of illness which is really tough to treat. And basically means having minimum of two highs and two lows in the past 12 months.

That may indicate you are not as ill as you once were. However, sometimes people begin to look better when their brains are ...

Discontinuing rather than maintaining antidepressant medications following treatment of depression in patients with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder (BD) appears to improve outcomes, new research ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings, with individuals experiencing both the highs of mania or hypomania and the lows of depression. "Cycles" in bipolar ...

Patients with rapid-cycling bipolar II disorder are not at increased risk for mood conversions after taking long-term antidepressant monotherapy, new research shows.

Bipolar disorders present a high rate of misdiagnosis issues (e.g., Rakofsky et al., 2015; Shen et al., 2018; McIntyre et al., 2022). This has a lot to do with poor differential diagnosis practice ...