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November 2, 2007

Bipolar disease drug dramatically increases lifespan in worms
ANI via Yahoo! India
Washington, October 31 (ANI): Scientists at the Buck Institute have found that the lifespan of nematode worms increases by 46 per cent upon treatment with lithium, raising the tantalizing question whether humans taking the mood affecting drug may also be deriving anti-aging benefits from it. Lithium has been used to treat mood affective disorders, including bipolar disease for decades, ...

Misconceptions About Bipolar Disorder Explained, From The Harvard Health Letter
Medical News Today
Portrayals of bipolar disorder seem to be cropping up everywhere -- in the news, in movies, and on television. The November 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter dispels some myths and misunderstandings about this condition. Bipolar disorder is difficult to diagnose, and it often gets confused with other mental illnesses. [click link for full article]

Drug Commonly Used To Treat Bipolar Disorder Dramatically Increases Lifespan In Worms
Science Daily
Nematode worms treated with lithium show a 46 percent increase in lifespan, raising the tantalizing question of whether humans taking the mood affecting drug are also taking an anti-aging medication. Lithium has been used to treat mood affective disorders, including bipolar disease for decades.

Doctor: Teacher In Student Sex Case Is Bipolar
KMBC-TV Kansas City
A psychologist said a former Lawrence High School teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with a male student has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Educating minorities on mental-health issues
The Indianapolis Star
If undiagnosed and untreated, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or bipolar disorder can be devastating, particularly for black adolescents. If ADHD isn't treated before age 15, those children are three times more likely to abuse drugs or alcohol, said Dr. William Bailey Jones, a local psychiatrist.

U.N. General Assembly Condemns U.S. for Cuba Embargo, Again
The New York Sun
UNITED NATIONS - Ignoring what America considers Cuba's "embargo on freedom," the General Assembly yesterday affirmed for the 16th consecutive year its opposition to economic measures Washington has had in force since the 1960s to isolate the Castro regime. The debate, a throwback to the bipolar days of the Cold War, was far from even. The 192-member body was all but unified in support of ...

Large Controlled Trial of Widely Used Mood Stabilizers Demonstrates Efficacy in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
In the largest pediatric study of its kind on mood stabilizers, scientists from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and two other centers demonstrated that divalproex sodium has efficacy for significantly improving symptoms of bipolar I disorder in children and adolescents, according to results presented today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent ...

Shock tactics
Times Online
But today slightly more than 50% are "high functioning", with diagnoses like ADD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder. New York supplies most of these students,

Boiled Nuts Help Protect Against Illness
The Associated Press -
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - For lovers of boiled peanuts, there's some good news from the health front. A new study by a group of Huntsville researchers found ...

Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression Causes and Treatment
American Chronicle
Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in mood. These disturbances can occur on a spectrum ...

Health Highlights: Oct. 26, 2007
Atlanta Journal Constitution
The mood stabilizer drugs divalproex and lithium significantly improved symptoms in children and adolescents with bipolar I disorder, according to a

Are Children With Velocardiofacial Syndrome Prone to Bipolar ...
DG News
With the onset of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia generally appearing in late adolescence and early adulthood, Dr. Jolin said it would be beneficial to ...

Messages to Family Members: How You Can Help
About - News &
We received an email from someone who has two bipolar family members. The writer had noticed how often bipolar people on our forum stated that a loved one's ...

Combination of drugs helping those with bipolar disorder
San Antonio Express
According to San Antonio psychiatrists, at least 9 million people in the United States are bipolar. An estimated 15 to 20 percent of them will commit

News media have role in the truth
Florida Times-Union
Experts agree that over 90 percent of all suicides are the result of untreated, or improperly treated, depression or bipolar disorder. ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Sees Sales Gain After Ad Spend Hike
Mediapost.com
Total revenue for Abilify, an anti-psychotic agent for the treatment of schizophrenia, acute bipolar mania and bipolar disorder, increased 34%, ...

Combination of drugs helping those with bipolar disorder
San Antonio Express-News
According to San Antonio psychiatrists, at least 9 million people in the United States are bipolar. An estimated 15 to 20 percent of them will commit suicide.

Linebacker James emerges as Sun Devils' biggest surprise
San Francisco Chronicle
No one expected Arizona State linebacker Robert James to become a star, not after what he's been through. His personal travails began in 2005, when he had to miss the Insight Bowl to travel to Mississippi to tend to his father, who is bipolar, had pneumonia...

Discovering A Seasonal Pattern In Bipolar Disorder Symptoms May Have Implications For Better Management
Medical News Today
Approximately one fifth of people with bipolar disorder, mostly those with bipolar II, find their symptoms wax and wane with the seasons. Benito Mussolini was a prime example. In her biography of the Italian dictator Margarita Sarfati wrote: "He was quiet for months on end.

Daniel Ortega's two faces of economic change
Miami Herald
For Nicaragua's business and investment sectors, the first nine months of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega's return to government has been somewhat of a bipolar experience.

Noven's Stavzor gets FDA approvable letter
bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance
Noven Pharmaceuticals said it received an approvable letter from the Food and Drug Administration for its potential treatment for bipolar disorder, migraines and epilepsy.

Conference discusses mental health, probate issues
The News-Herald
As a father, Pete Earley had to lie, compromise his ethics and do whatever it took, just to get his son help for his untreated bipolar disorder. Earley, a former Washington Post investigative reporter, is the author of eight nonfiction books including two national best sellers.

Biomedical approach to autism hits the mainstream with Jenny Mc Carthy
American Chronicle
By age 3 I had mood fits (rapid cycling bipolar) up to 6 times in a day and was, in between giggles, often self injurious. By 9 I was still being tested for ...

Woman Disappears From Hospital; Police Search
Pittsburgh Channel.com
She suffers from bipolar disorder and depression. She is 32 years old, with dark blond hair and green eyes. Sandolfini was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt ...

Search on for missing bipolar woman
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
As of Sunday, state police at Kiski Valley were still searching for Christina, who is described as having a bipolar disorder. She is 5 feet 7 inches tall ...

Psychologist: Ex-teacher convicted on sex charge diagnosed as bipolar
Lawrence Journal World
By George Diepenbrock A former Lawrence teacher convicted of having sex with a male student has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which inhibited her

Bipolar author to tell her story
Vancouver Sun
Autumn Stringam is a young wife and mother who suffered from bipolar disorder for much of her life, but who says she was cured of the illness as a result of ...

How to Survive Bipolar Disorder
Psychology Today
Tips on gaining control of a bipolar mood cycle.

Search on for missing bipolar woman
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Still woozy from ankle surgery, Mario Sandolfini knew something was the matter with his wife, Christina, when he saw her early Friday at Excela Health Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg.

Drug Commonly Used To Treat Bipolar Disorder Dramatically ...
Science Daily
Lithium has been used to treat mood affective disorders, including bipolar disease for decades. While the drug has been shown to protect neurons,

Man pleads guilty in Racine school sexual assault
WKBT
Dyess said in Racine County Circuit Court yesterday that he's bipolar and has chronic paranoid schizophrenia. Dyess was linked to the crime when police ...

Kerry Katona: 'I'm taking drugs for bipolar disorder'
Daily Mail
Troubled star Kerry Katona has revealed she takes anti-depressants in an effort to control her bipolar disorder. The pregnant star revealed she takes

Psychologist says teacher in student sex case is bipolar
NTV
(AP) - A psychologist says a former Lawrence High School teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with a male student has been diagnosed with bipolar ...

Questions of judgment
Lawrence Journal World
According to psychologist Dr. Bruce Cappo, 24-year-old Meredith Kane suffers from bipolar disorder and substance abuse issues. ...

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