Lisa Venghaus, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S, Clinical Rater with BioBehavioral Research of Austin (BBRA) stopped by Studio 512 to talk about what BBRA does, and her current work. Lisa says, “BioBehavioral ...

By the time Ola was categorized bipolar in the early 2000s, the diagnosis was taking off. One study found that from 1994 to 2003, bipolar diagnoses doubled for American adults. Cases of pediatric ...

ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, or Both? Linda Jo Volness, MS, RN, is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist who is board certified in child, adolescent, and adult mental illness. At Quality of Life in Fargo ...

On July 2, 2011, the Harvard Crimson reported that nationally known child psychiatrists Joseph Biederman, M.D., Timothy Wilens, M.D., and Thomas Spencer, M.D. were found to have violated conflict of ...

This post is in response to The Geography of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, Part II By Stuart L. Kaplan M.D. Australian psychiatrist Peter Parry in these posts identifies pediatric bipolar disorder as “a ...

A neuroimaging study in Italy found that patients with bipolar disorder reporting more adverse childhood experiences tended to have worse integrity of brain white matter. This association was present ...

ANNOUNCER: In 2001, FRONTLINE reported on the dramatic rise in the number of children being given behavior-modifying medications. EXPERT: We cannot as a nation continue to play the game of Russian ...

Bipolar disorder does not affect a person’s intelligence. However, it may impact the way a person thinks and behaves. Studies also suggest that having high intelligence may increase a person’s risk of ...

The American Psychiatric Association recently previewed some of the proposed changes to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, colloquially known as the DSM. Any alterations to ...