The FDA has approved Caplyta as adjunctive therapy with antidepressants to treat major depressive disorder in adults, ...

Preface: In a recent piece, Our Avoidant Boys, a reader started a conversation about marijuana use as a self medication. He pointed out that two great scientists, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman ...

Results from the largest and longest study of its kind have found that the drug metformin can help manage weight gain in ...

The new approval is the first for the drug under JNJ leadership. ・The drug is also approved for the treatment of bipolar I ...

D.C.-based biotech company Vanda Pharmaceuticals saw its stock jump after a drug was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be used as a treatment for bipolar disorder. Fanapt, developed by ...

"Doctor, pleeeease, no more of these," my mind sang to the tune of the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper." That 1966 song, about a housewife begging her doc for more pills, told a story far ...

When Natasha Tracy was 19, a psychiatrist diagnosed her with minor depression. “I knew this was wrong,” Tracy says. “He hadn’t listened to me. I was suffering from severe, suicidal depression.” In ...

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is a brain disorder characterized by cyclic mood swings of extreme highs called mania and intense lows known as depression. With proper drugs and ...

Pea-sized brains grown in a lab have for the first time revealed the unique way neurons might misfire due to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, psychiatric ailments that affect millions of people ...