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Professional counseling might help stabilize girl who has bipolar ...
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Q. Our 13-year-old granddaughter is an honor student who does
wonderfully at school. However, she has a bipolar disorder. Her parents
...
Classen in 'dreamlike' state during killing, expert testifies
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
... employees. He said Classen was in a disassociative, or "dreamlike,"
state and in an acute manic phase of his bipolar disorder. When ...
Scientists confirm bipolar link
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
A team of Japanese scientists says it has confirmed a possible link
between mitochondrial dysfunction in brain nerve cells and bipolar
disorder. ...
Doctor talks of meds' effect on defendant
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
Classen's medical records show he had been treated for bipolar disorder
in the past and appropriately took lithium to control mood swings, Dr.
Robert M. Julien ...
Bipolar Disorder Linked To Mitochondrial Dysfunction In Brain ...
Medical News Today - UK
Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, say there is
good evidence of a link between bipolar disorder and mitochondrial
dysfunction in brain ...
School locks out bipolar pupil
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
A 12-year-old bipolar sufferer who was not allowed into class on Tuesday
was in tears after he was told he could not return to school until his
parents had ...
Bipolar Disorder Linked To Mitochondrial Dysfunction In Brain Cells
Medical News Today
Researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, say there is
good evidence of a link between bipolar disorder and mitochondrial
dysfunction in brain nerve cells. You can read about this study in
Molecular Psychiatry.Nobody is yet sure about the cause of bipolar
disorder. The scientists genetically engineered a mouse whose
mitochondria in brain nerve cells would dysfunction... click
'Bipolar - Mood Disorders' April 27 at Petoskey
Gaylord Herald Times
PETOSKEY - A workshop on "Bipolar - Mood Disorders" will be held
Thursday, April 27, 4-5:30 p.m. in the Petoskey High School Media
Center. The workshop is part of a series of sessions sponsored by area
organizations which formed the Child Advocates for Emotional and Mental
Health Issues.
School locks out bipolar pupil
Independent Online
A 12-year-old bipolar sufferer has been refused entry to class at
Camelot College because his parents had not paid the school's R800 trust
donation.
Bipolar mood disorder workshop April 27
Harbor Light
A workshop on BipolarMood Disorders will be held Thursday, April 27 from
4:005:30 p.m. in the Petoskey High School Media Center. The workshop is
part of a series of sessions sponsored by area organizations which
formed the Child Advocates for Emotional and Mental Health Issues. Marit
Vogel, MD, chil
Mental health court helps man turn life around
Las Vegas Sun
Terry Louis has lived a life of drugs, crime and mental illness. The
48-year-old is a diagnosed bipolar schizophrenic who, for at least the
last 12 years, has only casually taken his medication between a series
of short-lived jobs and cocaine binges.
Murder defendant depressed, not manic, psychologist testifies
The Oregonian
VANCOUVER -- Murder defendant James N. Classen was likely depressed --
not in a bipolar manic state -- when he stabbed his estranged wife to
death in February 2005, a forensic psychologist testified Wednesday in
Clark County Superior Court.
What's Holding Up the Sandman?
New York Times
Millions of people are now taking sleeping pills without first exploring
the reasons for their sleep problems and possible nondrug routes to cure
them.
Golf-club killing not premeditated, judge says
The Columbus Dispatch
CINCINNATI (AP) - A man convicted of bludgeoning his 13-year-old
daughter to death with a golf club did not plan the killing, a judge
ruled.
Defense psychologist: Moussaoui is schizophrenic with delusions
AP Worldstream; 4/18/2006; MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press
Writer
Dateline: ALEXANDRIA, Virginia
A defense psychologist testified that Zacarias Moussaoui is a paranoid
schizophrenic with delusions, as defense lawyers presented additional
evidence that the confessed Sept. 11 conspirator believes he will be
freed from prison by President George W. Bush.
Psychologist Xavier Amador testified Monday that Moussaoui displays
symptoms of the brain disorder, including delusions and disorganized
thoughts and speech.
Moussaoui's court-appointed defense lawyers believe he has lied on
the witness stand twice about having a role in the nation's worst
terrorist attack in order to achieve martyrdom through execution or an
enhanced role in history. The jury must choose between execution and
life in prison for Moussaoui.
Amador has never examined Moussaoui, who refused to see him. He said
his diagnosis is based in part on conclusions of other mental-health
professionals and an analysis of Moussaoui's actions and writings,
including numerous rambling and abusive legal motions Moussaoui filed
during the 18 months he represented himself.
Last week, in his second appearance as a witness, the 37-year-old
Frenchman of Moroccan descent reiterated his stunning earlier testimony
that he was to hijack a fifth jetliner on Sept. 11 and fly into the
White House _ a plan he had said for years was intended for a later
date. He added that he has dreamed Bush will release him before leaving
office in 2009 as part of a prisoner exchange for U.S. troops captured
abroad, and said he is convinced that will occur.
One of Moussaoui's guards at the Alexandria Jail, called by the
defense Monday, offered more details of Moussaoui's vision. Sheriff's
Deputy Vikas Ohri said Moussaoui has told him that after Bush frees him,
he will "fly to London, write a book, make some money and go back to the
mountains of Afghanistan and be al-Qaida."
Earlier defense witnesses described Moussaoui's impoverished
childhood with a violent, alcoholic father and his later embrace of
radical Islam, after anti-Arab racism and his background thwarted his
desire to become an international businessman.
Struggling to save Moussaoui from execution, court-appointed defense
lawyers called a clinical social worker, Moussaoui's high school friends
and his older sisters to try to offset his second damaging appearance on
the witness stand last week. Clinical social worker Jan Vogelsang
testified it was not her purpose to make excuses for Moussaoui's actions
but to understand how he reached that point.
They described a boy who witnessed violence at home and endured five
stints in orphanages, frequent moves and deep poverty but nevertheless
became an engaging and fun-loving teenager known for his smile and his
ambition.
His Moroccan ancestry and lack of family financial backing, however,
helped block his ambitions, first in France and then in London. He
withdrew from family and friends in 1995, gained weight, shaved his head
and took up Islamic fundamentalism, these witnesses said.
Jurors took copious notes during Vogelsang's testimony. But Moussaoui
later said, "It's a lot of American B.S."
Slumped in his chair, Moussaoui closely watched videotaped testimony
from his sister Jamilla.
She described him as "a pretty little baby, always smiling. ... He
was the little sweetheart of the family."
And she described abuse by their father, Omar, who repeatedly beat
Jamilla and his wife, Aicha. "He almost killed me; he tried to kill me,"
she said. When her mother had money for food, "he ate everything and
left us nothing."
When Moussaoui returned from England for a visit in the mid-1990s,
"he was very turned inward on himself," she said. "I no longer liked
discussions with him."
Omar is now hospitalized in France for treatment of bipolar disorder.
Jamilla has a guardian and is being treated for schizophrenia. The
oldest sister, Nadia, also has a guardian and is being treated for
psychosis with schizophrenic features, records show.
Vogelsang said Moussaoui's mother provided little supervision and no
religious training. The family celebrated Christian and Islamic holidays
because Aicha wanted her children to integrate into French culture, the
social worker said.
She said children with childhoods like Moussaoui's fail to develop
normal resilience and adaptability to life's setbacks. They choose poor
role models and fail to deal with feelings of aggression, she testified.
On cross-examination, prosecutor David Novak tried to undercut the
tone of inevitability that Vogelsang had struck. He got her to
acknowledge that Moussaoui's older brother, Abd Samad Moussaoui, emerged
from the same family to become an engineering teacher rather than a
terrorist.
As a teenager, Moussaoui was rejected as a "dirty Arab" by the family
of his girlfriend, Vogelsang said.
Two high school buddies from France, Fabrice Guillen in court and
Christophe Marguel on videotape, testified how much Moussaoui liked to
have fun, party and play sports. Guillen said Moussaoui's hero was
Martin Luther King Jr.
Both said he was troubled by racism in France. He was barred from
clubs because of his skin color, Guillen said. "He said it wasn't a big
deal ... but we all knew it bothered him."
Gilles Cohen, who met the 18-year-old Moussaoui in 1986, said they
talked regularly about Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. "I am a Jew, he is
an Arab, and we were best friends," Cohen said. "We were proud we
exemplified how two peoples could come together."
Imam Abdul Haqq Baker, chairman of the Brixton mosque Moussaoui
attended in London, said men like Moussaoui were easy prey for radical
Islamists seeking recruits. Radicals who disapproved of Brixton's
moderate stance "would pass out leaflets: `Learn the truth about kuffar
(infidels),'" Baker said.
Moussaoui changed dramatically after exposure to the radicals, Baker
said.
The jury has already found Moussaoui eligible for execution. Even
though he was in jail in Minnesota at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks,
the jury ruled that lies he told federal agents a month before the
attacks kept them from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.
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Associated Press writer Matthew Barakat contributed to this report.
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Mitochondria tied to bipolar disorder: study+
Kyodo World News Service; 4/17/2006
Dateline: TOKYO, April 18
(Kyodo) _ A team of Japanese scientists said Tuesday that it has
confirmed a possible link between mitochondrial dysfunction in brain
nerve cells and bipolar disorder.
The team, which includes scientists at the RIKEN Brain Science
Institute based in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, published their findings in
the online edition of the U.S. scientific journal Molecular Psychiatry
on Tuesday.
There are different hypotheses on the cause of bipolar disorder, with
some indicating the involvement of neurotransmitters, but the disease's
exact mechanism is unknown.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive disorder, is
characterized by recurrent depressive and manic phases.
In their experiment, the team created a mouse whose mitochondria in
brain nerve cells were set to dysfunction through genetic engineering.
Normal mice became active in the dark and stopped its activity as it
turned brighter, but the disabled mice continued to be active in the
bright environment for a while, showing insomnia-like symptoms seen
among bipolar patients.
The team has long pointed out the link between mitochondrial
dysfunction and bipolar disorder.
"There is a possibility to help resolve the disease's mechanism and
to develop new drugs," said the team's leader, Tadafumi Kato.
Copyright 2006, Kyodo World News Service All Rights Reserved
This material is published under license from the publisher through
ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan. All
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