Excellent school performance at age 16 and risk of adult bipolar disorder ...
British Journal of Psychiatry
Email: j.maccabe{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk Anecdotal and biographical reports suggest that bipolar disorder may be associated with high IQ or creativity, ...

Police seek missing student last seen at Our Place
Victoria Times Colonist
Police are looking for Ontario woman Dana Tkachenko, 29, a Masters student at Trent University suffers from bipolar and schizoaffective disorder went ...

Zyprexa (olanzapine): Use in Adolescents
Food Consumer
... Zyprexa related to its indication for use in adolescents (ages 13-17) for treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder [manic or mixed episodes]. ...

Letters to the editor: health topics
The Fairfield Citizen
Did you know that one out of four American families is affected by mental illness? With names like depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and OCD, these illnesses touch the lives of many of our families, friends, neighbors and co-workers.

Polk County Sheriff Looking for Endangered Person
KSPR Springfield
The Polk county sheriff's office is asking people in and around Halfway, Missouri to be on the lookout for 28 year old Lucas Nickle. Authorities issued an endangered person report for the man whom they say is mentally disabled, bipolar, and is a Paranoid Schizophrenic suffering from delusions, and may become violent.

Something Happy Is What We All Wish For Susan Campbell
Hartford Courant
Her 65-year-old daughter, who lives with bipolar disorder, is homeless in Hartford. The older woman's landlord won't let her take her daughter in, ...

ER physician says overdose killed Rebecca Riley
Enterprise News
Rebecca Riley was diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar disorder when she was 2 by Dr. Kayoko Kifuji of Tufts-New England Medical Center. ...

Drop-in centers provide stop-gap, support to patients with mental illness
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
“If you're bipolar and cycling through the ups and downs, you can go to the center and people understand because we've all been there. ...

Police officers not allowed to give evidence at disciplinary hearing
Edmonton Journal
Berube's lawyer Tom Engel has argued that his client suffers from bipolar disorder which began due to his experiences while working in downtown division. ...

Driver jailed in suicidal crash
Maryland Gazette
He is bipolar and was not taking medication for his illness at the time. "He is very remorseful, he feels quite terrible," Aita said. Even before the crash, ...

I've beaten myself up over this, says sober and sorry groper Chris Smith
Daily Telegraph
Previously, Smith has acknowledged that he was an alcoholic and that he also suffered bipolar disorder. "I can never go back to that point. ...

Mood swings may reveal issues with bipolar disorder
Scottsbluff Star-Herald
It all started at the age of 14 with mood swings, deep depression and cutting, said Hillary, now 21. "My condition made it difficult to go to school because I was made fun of. I was told I was ugly, fat and stupid and was never told anything positive," she said.

The Accidental Prophet
New York Magazine
In 1980, he moved his family to England, failed spectacularly, and succumbed further to severe bipolar disorder. A few years later, they returned to ...

'Crazy Like Us,' by Ethan Watters
San Francisco Chronicle
Taking a wealth of research into account, however, it's hard to argue that severe illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe depression ...

Winter blues or SAD?
Paragould Daily Press
Approximately 20 percent of people with SAD also suffer from bipolar I or II disorder. Sufferers can also potentially self-medicate with alcohol during the ...

Even meds don't make bipolar disorder easy
The Free Lance-Star
His mother said, "If he were bipolar--any other mental illness--there's a pill for it that will alter the progression." For those patients and families ...

Pick your poison
Boston Globe
Seroquel XR purports to treat bipolar depression, a serious mental illness. One of the six pages depicts a sad-looking woman sitting in a stairwell. ...

Pregnant women with bipolar disorder should 'speak' to doctor
Craegmoor News
Women with bipolar disorder should speak to their doctor about their medicine if they are pregnant, national charity Mind has said. ...

Body Of Missing Roseville Man Found On Iron Range
Northland's NewsCenter
... Volunteer Rescue Squad searched the woods today, and came across the deceased Twin Cities man, who suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. ...

Robert Westhead: Instead of just being lively, I was losing touch with reality
Independent
It has been suggested that having a celebrity's ultra-outgoing personality might dispose someone to bipolar illness. At least one in 100 people has bipolar ...

In Lake City, Seattle, homeless veterans and others now have a place to call home
Seattle Times
But with the help of government programs and nonprofit groups, the Marine veteran now has a studio apartment and receives ongoing help for bipolar disorder, ...

Free class soon for families living with mental illness
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
... major depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depression), panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and borderline personality disorder. ...

Hearing scheduled to certify as an adult 15-year-old rape suspect
Toledo Blade
The victim, who has bipolar disorder and Asperger's syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, told police she was walking to the West Toledo branch library on ...

Straight-A schoolchildren at higher risk of bipolar disorder, research claims
Telegraph.co.uk
Straight-A schoolchildren have a much higher risk of suffering from bipolar disorder than less intelligent pupils, according to new research. ...

Fish Oil to Prevent Psychotic Disorders?
About - News & Issues (blog)
If these findings stand up in larger studies, will the results turn out to have an application to the psychosis of Bipolar I Disorder? ...

Concert to benefit a local eight year-old with a terminal illness
WNDU-TV
Heather says, “Eventually he will be bedridden, tube fed, blindness, kind of what some people would consider bipolar, because there are so many changes with ...

Jurors in trial of accused mother hear taped interviews
Boston Globe
When asked if Rebecca's bipolar diagnosis was wrong, the defendant replied, “probably.'' She said she “trusted that the doctors knew what they were talking ...

Seroquel Litigation May Cost AstraZeneca $1.2B in Legal Costs: Report
AboutLawsuits.com
... treatment of bipolar disorders through publications presented at major congresses,” even though treatment of bipolar disorders was not approved at the time.

“Brain Bank” To Foster Research, Treatment of Major Psychiatric Diseases
Healthcanal.com
The database's inventory of 60 human brains includes 15 from people diagnosed with schizophrenia, 15 from those with bipolar disorder, and 15 from people ...

Teen had history of threatening family, authorities say
Greensboro News & Record
Records show the teen's mother said at his first appearance before a judge that her son suffered from bipolar disorder . Rook later pleaded guilty and ...

Botox Makes You Happier
Momlogic.com
In the study, Finzi injected ten women (nine with depression and one with bipolar disorder) with Botox in their glabellar frown lines. ...

Patients with Mental Illness Make a "Turning Point"
WSIL TV
Patients with depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder are among those seeking treatment. Therapists agree the group sessions seem to be a favorite of ...

Prescription medication found at time of Brittany Murphy's death belonged to ...
New York Daily News
... found at the house included an anti-inflammatory, a painkiller, an antidepressant, plus medicine to treat anxiety, diabetes and bipolar disorder. ...

Get the Latest News and Info
ParentDish (blog)
So given ordinary 2-year-old behavior, how can any child that age to be realistically and accurately diagnosed with bipolar disorder? ...

Sandoz launches generic mental disorder treatment
Drug Store News (blog)
21) Sandoz has launched a generic version of a drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, the generic drug maker announced. Sandoz, the generics arm of ...

Toledo woman describes her battle with bipolar disorder
WTOL.com
By Melissa Voetsch email | bio TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - A Toledo woman is tackling the stigma of bipolar disorder from the inside out. ...

Social worker says she warned family
Boston Globe
Both girls were diagnosed by the same psychiatrist with bipolar and hyperactivity disorder at age 2, and, according to witnesses, often looked so weak that ...

Take steps to prevent bipolar card splurges
Fox News
One of the symptoms of bipolar disorder can be overspending. To prevent rampant shopping, there are obstacles you can set up to derail your urge to splurge.

Author outlines disconnect
Barrie Examiner
(QMI) -- An author living with bipolar disorder for most of his life says if he is ever hospitalized and out of control again, his psychiatrist should medicate him so he can sleep for several days.[...]

Cops: Woman killed boyfriend with antifreeze-laced margarita
New York Post
FARMINGTON, N.Y. They met in a Veterans Affairs hospital, a former airman with bipolar disorder who drank too much and a clerical assistant struggling to cope with her teenage son’s drug-overdose death. Cynthia Galens and Thomas Stack soon moved in together, and their two-year relationship seemed to mirror...

Now Patrick Kennedy seat is in trouble
Irish Central
Kennedy has also had a troubled history with drugs and alcohol and admitted he was bipolar. Rumors abound that some of the successful team that led Scott ...

Gunn High grad killed near same Caltrain crossing where four suicides occurred ...
San Jose Mercury News
Taylor had been diagnosed with and was being treated for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. "We are so sad at the passing of our son," Taylor's mother ...

Fattened by pills
Boston Globe
... about the effects of its drug Zyprexa3 (approved to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder but also prescribed for other conditions) on weight gain, ...

Ex-Penn law student gets 5-10 years in shooting incident
Philadelphia Inquirer
On that day, Cho, who has since been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, left his third-floor apartment on Pine Street near 44th, ...

Homes for mentally ill targeted
Fresno Bee
The apartment complexes can house 51 people with mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Donna Taylor, the county's Behavioral Health ...

Service dog helps woman fight mental illness
Windsor Star WINDSOR, ONT. -- Jennifer Francis has a disability and requires a service dog but there's nothing wrong with her sight, hearing or limbs. The 23-year-old London resident and engineering student is a diagnosed sufferer of bipolar Type 2 disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and panic disorder.

Budget Funds New Mental Health Gene Research
Scoop.co.nz
Additional budget funding of $3 million per year* (including GST) for the Health Research Council has enabled 12 new projects to be funded, two of which will search for the genes involved in depression and bipolar disorder.

Joan Denny, Center Stage volunteer and bipolar awareness advocate, dies
Baltimore Sun
Her willingness to talk about bipolar disorder that she had most of her life helped advance understanding of the ailment Joan W. Denny, who had bipolar disorder for most of her life and was a longtime participant in Johns Hopkins University Mood Disorders Center-Symposium, died Jan. 11 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 79.

Psychiatrist on the stand in Riley child murder case
Boston Globe
Dr. Kayoko Kifuji (2004 Handout photo) By Patricia Wen, Globe staff BROCKTON - A Boston child psychiatrist has taken the witness stand and is being questioned about her decision to diagnose Rebecca Riley with bipolar illness starting at age...

Dr. Irene S. Levine: Disappearing Acts: When friends disappear after a diagnosis of bipolar disorder
The Huffington Post
QUESTION Dear Dr. Levine, I am reeling from the awareness that certain friends who meant a great deal to me have abruptly turned their back...

NAMI to offer free classes for families of mentally ill
Asheville Citizen-Times
Up-to-date facts about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder and ...

Spokane groups look to help sufferers of mental disorders
The Spokesman Review
Dorothy Nechanicky, left, and Abe Ferris, who are both diagnosed with bipolar disorder, are the vice president/secretary and president, respectively, ...

Support Groups, updated Jan. 26
TCPalm
Mental Illness Support Team: For people dealing with depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc. New Horizons of the Treasure Coast, 4500 Midway Road, Fort Pierce, ...

Would-be Hasan visitor bipolar
UPI.com
26 (UPI) -- A Texas man accused of saying he legally represented alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan is bipolar and was off his medication, ...

Health Checkup: Bipolar disorder
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic-depressive disorder, is a psychiatric illness consisting of episodes of elevations in mood, either mania or hypomania.

Excessive substance use in bipolar disorder is associated with impaired functioning...
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
There is a strong association between bipolar disorder (BD) and substance use disorder (SUD). The clinical and functional correlates of SUD in BD are still ...