Bipolar II disorder is a mental health condition that involves at least one depressive episode and at least one period of elevated mood, called hypomania. Bipolar II disorder causes intense ...

Think of a teenager’s first love. Because this often pushes a teen into an elevated mood, it doesn’t register with most parents as something to be concerned about and it isn’t. But if it is ...

During mania, a person with bipolar disorder may experience an extremely elevated mood and racing thoughts. They may be easily irritated and talk very quickly and for long periods. They may also ...

A person’s condition does not fit the clinical definitions for the other types of bipolar disorder, but they have still had periods of clinically significant, abnormally elevated mood.

Your mood is influenced by a complex web of relationships between sunlight, melatonin (the sleep hormone) and serotonin (the hormone associated with wakefulness and elevated mood). As darkness ...

R-708-5p is a stress-regulated microRNA and a potential biomarker for the differential diagnosis of human mood disorders.