Find out how experts distinguish between normal mood swings and bipolar disorder, when you should seek help, and tips for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,’” ...

The term “emotional disorders” usually refers to mental health conditions like mood disorders. When people use the term emotional disorders, they’re usually talking about mental health conditions that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...