In her first Mental Elf blog, Dr Mary Butler discusses the use of probiotics for the treatment of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

A tool based on machine learning from routine clinical data may be useful in predicting the transition to schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.

Excessive daytime napping was significantly and independently associated with depressive symptoms among patients with bipolar disorder.

To an outsider, bipolar disorder and depression might seem very similar, with periods of intense sadness, hardly any energy to do the things you used to love and difficulty concentrating on ...