The term manic depression was changed to bipolar disorder with the 1980 publication of the third revision of the "Diagnostic ...

It is the first drug to have an impact on the symptoms of manic depression since the introduction of lithium more than 50 years ago. In international trials over the past two years, daily doses of ...

But he lost them all when he developed manic depression, a terrifying illness that affects around one per cent of the population. Here, he explains how he won back his life. The scene was one of ...

Despite the suffering caused by bipolar disorder – also known as manic depression, a significant minority of patients actually want to keep it because of the creative highs it gives them, according to ...