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Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric illness defined by recurrent episodes of mood elevation and depression, with abnormal shifts in mood, energy, activity and cognition. Manic episodes feature elevated or irritable mood, increased goal-directed activity, reduced need for sleep and impaired judgement, while hyp…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 69× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric illness defined by recurrent episodes of mood elevation and depression, with abnormal shifts in mood, energy, activity and cognition. Manic episodes feature elevated or irritable mood, increased goal-directed activity, reduced need for sleep and impaired judgement, while hypomania is a milder form and depressive episodes mirror major depression; the pattern and severity distinguish bipolar I, bipolar II and related presentations. Its aetiology is multifactorial, integrating genetic susceptibility with neurobiological and psychosocial factors, and it carries substantial functional impairment and suicide risk. Management combines pharmacological mood stabilization with psychosocial and psychotherapeutic interventions that address relapse prevention, adherence and functional recovery. Work in this area covers psychosocial interventions in bipolar disorder, psychosocial factors and comorbidity associated with recovery, religion and mental health, mental-health burden among climate-migrant women, combined therapy for depressed cancer patients with pain, rumination-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy and caregiver-child co-rumination, and a contextual-conceptual approach to suicide prevention. Adjacent themes including dietary influences on brain health and neuroprotective and antidepressant pharmacology situate mood disorder within broader psychiatric and neurobiological research. The journal publishes peer-reviewed clinical and translational research on bipolar disorder, its comorbidities and its psychosocial and pharmacological treatment.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 69 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Schizophrenia Disorders And Therapy.

Journal editorial board
Olaoluwa Okusaga · United States Andrea de Bartolomeis · Italy Krzysztof Krysta · Poland

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