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August 5, 2006

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Know someone struggling with mental illness?
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
The course will cover information about schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive ...

TM
PharmiWeb
Today the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence ( NICE ) launched new guidelines that support the use of atypical antipsychotics, including risperidone (Risperdal TM ), for the treatment of the manic phase of bipolar disorder.

MDQ (Mood Disorder Questionnaire)
Psychiatric Times
Every patient suspected of having unipolar depression should be evaluated for bipolar disorder (BD) using a quick screening tool before a prescription for an antidepressant is written.

Association Between Famine And Schizophrenia May Yield Clues About Inherited Diseases And Conditions
Science Daily
The higher risk of schizophrenia among offspring of expectant mothers living through famine could help us understand the genetic basis for that debilitating mental disorder, a group of researchers argue in a commentary piece in the Aug. 2 issue of JAMA. The finding also supports a theory of medical genetics in which diseases and conditions can be caused by hundreds of different genetic mutations

Gene Test Will Point Out Risk of Mental Disorders
The Canton Repository
One percent of all Americans -- some 2.4 million people -- have schizophrenia. An estimated 5.7 million have bipolar disorder. And 2.2 million adults have obsessive-compulsive disorder. What if you fo...

Asperger Syndrome
KidsHealth.org via Yahoo! News
Asperger syndrome (AS) is a neurobiological disorder that is part of a group of diagnoses called "autistic spectrum disorders." The term "autistic spectrum" refers to a range of developmental disabilities that includes autism as well as other disorders with similar characteristics.

Morgan Fuel Cell Promise to Boost Power Availability from Bipolar Plate Design
Fuel Cell Today
An innovation from Morgan Fuel Cell (MFC), which is owned by the Morgan Crucible Company, promises to boost the power available from fuel cells and bring down the manufacturing costs.

Avoid being Mr. Market
Orange County Register
That's a mythical investor with bipolar disorder who acts out his mania and depression with buy and sell tickets.

US study identifies brain's gambling chips
AFP via Yahoo! News
US researchers have identified the part of the brain that is stimulated by making wagers, which they say could prove helpful in treating gambling addictions and certain mental health disorders.

The addiction danger zone
Peoria Journal Star
Complete local and regional news, local business directory including restaurants, local classifieds and Central Illinois information.

Three charged in child killings
The Salt Lake Tribune
FARMINGTON - Saying 10-year-old Shelby L. Andrews suffered multiple forms of abuse before her death, prosecutors on Friday filed murder and sex abuse charges against the girl's father and stepmother. The charges and the information filed in 2nd District Court here do not elaborate on what Ryan W. Andrews and his wife, Angela R. Andrews, allegedly did to Shelby except to say she was hit in

Scientists Develop Artwork That Changes To Suit Your Mood
Science Daily
Computer scientists from Bath and Boston have developed electronic artwork that changes to match the mood of the person who is looking at it. Using images collected through a Web cam, special software recognizes eight key facial features that characterize the emotional state of the person viewing the artwork. It then adapts the colors and brush strokes of the digital artwork to suit the changing

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Harvard Psychiatrist Must Suspend Clinical Trials Over Conflicts
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Being the Ultimate Perfectionist

                                                           By Michele Soloway Sexton

I am the ultimate perfectionist.  Yes, me.  I even got a fortune cookie one time that said, "You have a yearning for perfection," do you believe that?"  Even Confucius knows it!

But it's a real battle for me.  I expect things from myself that I would never expect from anyone else, and it really messes with my bipolar disorder, because, well, no one's perfect, and no one can live with that kind of stress.

So I was talking to someone about it lately, and they told me, "It's ok to strive for perfection, as long as you don't expect to arrive at perfection."

It's ok to make mistakes.  That's what I've been learning.  If you don't learn that, you'll be bound up in fear (another thing that's bad for our bipolar disorder). 

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