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March 28, 2008

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Bipolar man gets 1-5 years for arsons
The Morning Call
His sister says he received brain damage from boxing. Eduardo Hidalgo's family never noticed anything wrong with him as a child, at least not the bipolar disorder later discovered by a doctor. According to his sister, it wasn't until he suffered a brain injury from boxing several years ago that his behavior changed.

Finding order in bipolar disorder
Tucson Citizen
Scanning through books about bipolar disorder, Tucsonan Kate McLaughlin found nothing that described the mental illness in an uplifting way.

If/then consequences and the case of Britney Spears
San Francisco Chronicle
The most likely problem, according to experts, is bipolar disorder. A sufferer intermittently explodes into hyper-energized mania, sometimes generating ...

Fears for safety of missing Australian man
Radio New Zealand
Police are appealing for sightings of Mathew Cameron, 26, who suffers from bipolar disorder and depression. Mr Cameron was in Christchurch to be groomsman ...

Activities for Mood Stabilization
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Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families by Michael W. Otto, Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington, Robert O. Knauz, Aude Henin and Jane N.

Does someone you know suffer from mental illness?
TheReporter.com
... a 12-week educational program to help family members understand and support loved ones suffering from major depression, bipolar, schizophrenia and OCD. ...

At-Home Test For Bipolar Disorder Causes Concern
RedOrbit
Kelsoe admits that bipolar disorder is likely the result of a combination of both genetic and life experience factors, and that the presence of certain gene ...

Kerry Katona has checked herself into the Priory for treatment
InTheNews.co.uk
Her readmission to the rehab centre is said to be part of her regular treatment for bipolar disorder. Filming of her MTV reality show Crazy In Love has been ...

Patients taught about mental health
Daily Herald
Both women have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and both asked their last names not be given for security reasons. "I would not be here on a Friday ...

Bipolar gene test stirs debate over at-home genetic tests
Siskiyou Daily News
Associated Press Writer SAN DIEGO - Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression.

How lack of sleep may be bad for the brain
Los Angeles Times
It's been linked to Alzheimer's and bipolar disease, and it's been found to affect learning and mood. By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Both

Depression: Causes, symptoms and treatment
Petoskey News-Review
Others forms include psychotic depression, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and bipolar disorder. Dysthymic disorder may be ...

"My actions were uncontrollable that night"
Journal-Advocate
The man, later diagnosed with bipolar disorder, told friends and an EMT treating him at the scene that he wanted to commit suicide by having the deputies ...

Bipolar gene test stirs debate over at-home genetic tests
Siskiyou Daily News
By MARCUS WOHLSEN AP Writer SAN DIEGO - Dr. John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. ...

Cost of Creativity: Bipolar Disorder & Stars
ABC News
Bipolar disorder can bestow the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Bipolar man found guilty of murder
The Spokesman-Review
Ryan Snow, the bipolar man who slit his grandfather's throat and left him to die while he sipped wine at a neighborhood restaurant, was found guilty of first-degree murder today.

Lithium chloride may help muscle disorder
UPI
U.S. medical scientists have found lithium chloride, used to treat bipolar disorder, might also slow development of inclusion body myositis.

Health Canada warns of serious skin reactions in patients taking carbamazepine
CBC
Health Canada has issued an advisory concerning carbamazepine, a drug commonly used to treat epilepsy, mania, bipolar disorder and trigeminal neuralgia, a facial condition.

Lithium chloride may help muscle disorder
Moldova.org
U.S. medical scientists have found lithium chloride, used to treat bipolar disorder, might also slow development of inclusion body myositis.University of California-Irvine researchers found mice genetically engineered to have inclusion body myositis, or IBM -- a skeletal muscle disease that affects older people -- demonstrated markedly better motor function six months after receiving daily doses ...

Dealing with bipolar disorder is a constant battle
The Belleville View
Dealing with any type of mental illness isn't easy but I want to make it public that I have been dealing with one since I was 16 years old. I have manic-depression, which is a type of bipolar disorder.

Go to Rehab
My Kinda Place
Kerry Katona headed back to The Priory clinic yesterday for treatment of depression related to her bipolar disorder. Filming on her MTV show, Crazy in Love, has been suspended as friends fear she may have even suffered a nervous breakdown.

Search On for At-Risk Sacramento Woman
News10 Sacramento
County authorities were searching for an at-risk Sacramento woman diagnosed with a bipolar disorder who disappeared last week, Sacramento County officials said Wednesday.

Book Review: Manic: A Memoir by Terri Cheney
Blogcritics.org
Living with bipolar disorder is difficult, even in these 'enlightened' times. Although the condition has nudged its way into public awareness, ...

New books at the Latah County Library
Latah Eagle
New Hope for People With Bipolar Disorder by Nancy Fawcett, et al. This second edition includes up-to-date treatments and compassionate guidance for those

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Home Town Journal
It resembles a patchy increased uptake seen commonly in Bipolar Disorder brain scans. In a group of 70 patients with this pattern - the most common symptoms

Depressed Katona checks into Priory
The Press Association -
But a spokeswoman for Katona's agent, Max Clifford, said she was being treated for her ongoing bipolar disorder. She said: "As everyone knows, Kerry suffers

Katona checks into rehab again
Channel 4 News
The mum-to-be had previously been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which causes dramatic mood swings. Her publicist, Max Clifford, says that Katona's

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