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December 4, 2004
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New
Brain Scan May Diagnose Bipolar Disorder
WebMD - USA
... 2004 (Chicago) -- Researchers using a special type of imaging
that tracks brain chemicals are able to produce a "chemical
fingerprint of bipolar disorder," a ...
MRI
Detects Bipolar Disorder
Ivanhoe - USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Patients with bipolar disorder may have a ...
Researchers studied 21 bipolar patients between ages 18 and 54
who were not on any medications. ...
Substance
Abuse Relapses: Could It Be a Dual Diagnosis?
7Online.com - New York,NY,USA
... Dr. Weiss has investigated what is known as dual diagnosis
for many years, focusing largely on substance abuse and bipolar
disorder, which is a mood disorder ...
Brent
Springford Junior Speaks To WSFA 12 News
WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA
... He says that he was devastated by the news and that he is
full of grief. He admits he has several medical problems including being
diagnosed as bipolar. ...
"Black
Box" Warning For Antidepressants
Science Daily (press release) -
USA
... UCLA-led Study Challenges Bipolar Depression Treatment
Guidelines (July 2, 2003) -- A study led by a UCLA Neuropsychiatric
Institute researcher challenges ...
Effective
treatments for bipolar illness abound
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
... DONOHUE: I am engaged to a man who has bipolar
illness. ... RT. ANSWER: People with bipolar illness
fluctuate between two mood extremes -- mania and depression. ...
MR SPECTROSCOPY MAY BE BEST BIPOLAR-DISORDER
GAUGE
The Palm Beach Post; 12/1/2004
The Palm Beach Post
12-01-2004
MR SPECTROSCOPY MAY BE BEST BIPOLAR-DISORDER GAUGE
EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: ACCENT
MEMO: HEALTH NOTES
Magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy may prove to be the definitive
diagnostic test for bipolar disorder, a serious brain illness
characterized by an alternating pattern of extreme emotional highs and
lows, according to a study presented this week at the annual meeting of
the Radiological Society of North America.
Using MR spectroscopy of the brain, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn., identified significant differences between the brain
chemistries of people with and without bipolar
disorder.
Bipolar disorder is now diagnosed by psychiatrists based on
symptoms and family history. Often patients go undiagnosed for years.
"Bipolar disorder is challenging to diagnose because
individuals can cover up the symptoms of the illness or may recognize
only their depression, not the manic phase of the disorder," says
Dr. John D. Port, assistant professor of radiology and consultant at the
Mayo Clinic.
"It's also important to be able to distinguish bipolar
disorder from major depression because a mistaken diagnosis can result
in the wrong therapy and unstable moods for years."
The National Institute of Mental Health says approximately 2.3 million
Americans have bipolar disorder.
The preliminary findings indicated that certain metabolite levels
differed significantly between the bipolar group and control
group in four areas of the brain that control behavior, movement, vision
and reading, and sensory information.
Researchers said this is the first study to analyze drug-free bipolar
patients using a 3T longbore MR scanner, which has twice the
magnetic-field strength of scanners used in recent bipolar
disorder studies.
- Carolyn Susman
Copyright © Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., 2004
Eli Lilly Sues to Block Generic Drug Sale
AP Online; 12/3/2004; KEN KUSMER, AP Business
Writer
AP Online
12-03-2004
Dateline: INDIANAPOLIS
Eli Lilly and Co.'s bestselling drug for schizophrenia and bipolar
disorder faces a new patent threat.
Indianapolis-based Lilly sued this week seeking to block Barr
Pharmaceuticals Inc. from selling a generic version of Zyprexa Zydis in
the United States. Zydis, a wafer form of Zyprexa, rapidly dissolves on
contact with saliva and resists being spit out by uncooperative
patients.
Attorneys for Lilly filed the patent infringement lawsuit in U.S.
District Court in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
A broader patent challenge to Zyprexa was tried earlier this year,
though no ruling has been issued yet.
"The arguments Barr raises are similar to those raised in the
recent Zyprexa trial," Lilly spokeswoman Terra Fox said.
Barr was not among the generic drugmakers whose patent challenges were
consolidated and tried in federal court in Indianapolis this year.
The financial stakes are high despite Zyprexa's declining U.S. sales.
Last year's U.S. sales totaled $2.63 billion, or more than a fifth of
Lilly's worldwide revenues. During the three months ending Sept. 30,
U.S. sales were $557.3 million, still strong enough to represent nearly
17 cents of every dollar Lilly took it during the third quarter.
Lilly's patents on Zyprexa, including Zydis, now give it exclusive U.S.
rights to the drug until 2011.
Barr officials said annual sales of Zyprexa Zydis came to $233 million
for the 12 months ending with September.
The generic drugmakers in the consolidated case are Zenith Goldline
Pharmaceuticals, owned by Ivax Corp. of Miami; Dr. Reddy's Laboratories
of India; and the U.S. arm of Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceutical
Industries.
Barr spokeswoman Carol Cox said the Pomona, N.Y.-based company was
challenging only the Zydis patent because it did not want to join such a
large group of litigants and because Barr sells other oral, rapidly
dissolving medications.
Lilly's Fox said it could seek to have Barr's case consolidated with the
others. It also could request a ruling be delayed until Young issues his
opinion.
Lilly stock was down 29 cents to $54.50 Friday on the New York Stock
exchange.
Copyright 2004, AP News All Rights Reserved
TAPPING EXUBERANCE How joy powers invention
Newsday; 12/3/2004; JAMIE TALAN
Newsday
12-03-2004
TAPPING EXUBERANCE
How joy powers invention
BY JAMIE TALAN. STAFF WRITER
Science has put considerable effort into studying the
sadder side of human nature, focusing on negative or destructive
emotions. Kay
Redfield Jamison is hoping science will look in the other direction - at
exuberance.
"Joy may be less philosophically satisfying than pain,"
Redfield said. "But
it's just as important - and a lot more fun."
Jamison is a scientist, writer and professor of psychiatry at Johns
Hopkins
University School of Medicine in Baltimore who is probably best known
for her
work with bipolar illness - and her own
struggle with the disorder. She's
co-written a renowned textbook on the illness, another on madness and
creativity, and the 1995 bestselling autobiography "An Unquiet
Mind." She
followed with "Night Falls Fast," about suicide and depression
Most recently she's turned her attention to the opposite end of the
emotional spectrum, interviewing such exuberant notables as James
Watson, the
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory chancellor who was awarded the Nobel Prize
for
his role in the discovery of DNA's structure. She asked Watson and other
scientists, artists and historians about the inner motor that drives
such
vitality.
"Exuberance flows," Watson told Jamison, a close friend and
scientific
colleague. "It is a state of mind which can only be relieved by
communicating
the idea."
Her work resulted in "Exuberance: The Passion for Life,"
published this
year by Alfred Knopf. On Sunday, Jamison will lecture and sign copies of
her
book at the laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center in Cold Spring
Harbor. The
center can be reached at 516-367-8844.
Theorists suspect that as many as one in 10 people are lucky enough to
embrace a temperament built on long-lasting energy and enthusiasm, she
said -
people who are "born bold, active and fearless, people who feel
intensively
alive."
Jamison said that an exuberant temperament creates Nobel Prize-winners
like
Watson and renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom Alan Alda portrayed
on
Broadway in "QED." And she suspects that scientists in
particular may benefit
from a high dose.
"Science is full of failure, and you need people to bounce back and
get
re-enthused," she said. "Exuberance is contagious," and
that energy motivates
others to pursue similar ideas.
To understand the chemistry that drives high energy and high mood is to
capture the force behind many great discoveries, she said.
"Exuberance is not
recognized for the vital role it plays in discovery, creativity,
leadership and
survival itself ... It forces us out into a greater arena of life."
But push exuberance too far, and mad things can happen.
"In their mild forms, exuberant states are intoxicating and
adaptive,"
Jamison writes. "But in their extremes, they are
pathological," and can drive
people into recklessness and madness.
She suspects that scientists who are developing drugs that enhance mood
in
psychiatric disorders are also tinkering with the idea of designing
potions
that artificially trigger exuberance - which she said could have a down
side.
"You don't want everyone being exuberant or cautious," she
said. "You want
a diversity of temperaments, a variety of energies and moods."
Copyright 2004, Newsday Inc.
STATE WON'T SEEK DEATH IN CROSSBOW KILLING
The Palm Beach Post; 12/2/2004; PAT MOORE, Palm
Beach Post Staff Writer
The Palm Beach Post
12-02-2004
STATE WON'T SEEK DEATH IN CROSSBOW KILLING
BYLINE: PAT MOORE, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
EDITION: MARTIN-ST. LUCIE
SECTION: A SECTION
STUART -- Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a Palm City
man charged with the October crossbow killing of his 79-year-old mother,
Assistant State Attorney Nita Denton said Wednesday.
Prosecutors considered a heartfelt letter from the oldest brother of
suspect Bruce Neal and potential mental health defenses when deciding
not to pursue the death penalty, she said.
"The family is united in the belief that Bruce at his core is a
good person and does not deserve to die for his thoughtless
action," Scott Neal wrote about his brother in a letter to State
Attorney Bruce Colton.
"I know I speak on behalf of my parents (and other family members)
when I state that my brother, Bruce, needs medical help and not to be
put to death for his sick behavior."
Bruce Neal, who was diagnosed with a bipolar
disorder at age 13, told investigators he was angry with his mother and
could not stop the mounting "white rage" inside him before he
shot his mother in the chest at the home they shared on Pendarvis Court.
Jean Neal, a tiny woman in failing health, staggered to the kitchen and
collapsed.
Bruce Neal called 911, but his mother died later that evening at Martin
Memorial Medical Center. He is being held without bail in the Martin
County jail, charged with first-degree murder.
Scott Neal, who lives in California, told prosecutors he found several
notes written by his brother in the Palm City home while planning his
mother's funeral.
"They tell a story of one who is troubled and is trying to be
normal and attempting to do the right thing," he said. "His
notes suggest he had considered suicide but never did he write a word to
suggest he considered violence against any other human being."
Defense attorney Richard Kibbey said his client is undergoing
examinations by psychiatric experts in preparation for his trial.
"We are intending to fight rigorously on grounds that he did not
commit a premeditated murder," he said.
Denton said prosecutors looked at Bruce Neal's criminal history,
including an incident more than 23 years ago when he fired a bow from an
arrow into a group of people in New Jersey, but no one was injured.
Bruce Neal also served time in prison in New Jersey after he was stopped
with a carload of explosives in 1996.
Denton said prosecutors concluded potential mitigating defenses,
including Neal's mental condition at the time he shot his mother,
weighed heavily on their decision not to pursue the death penalty.
"We have lobbied the state from the inception to do the right
thing, and they have," Kibbey said. "It would have been a
waste of time and taxpayers money to pursue the death penalty in this
case."
Copyright © Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc., 2004
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