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May 16, 2008
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Problems
Identified With Diagnosis Of Bipolar Disorder
Medical
News Today
A new study by Rhode Island Hospital
and Brown University researchers reports
that fewer than half the patients previously
diagnosed with bipolar disorder received
a diagnosis of bipolar disorder based on
a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview
- -the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV
(SCID).
Study:
Doctors Over-Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder
NPR
A new study suggests that many people are
being diagnosed as bipolar even though
they do not meet the criteria for the disorder.
Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital found
that about half of 700 patients who'd been
diagnosed as bipolar should not have been.
SANTA
ROSA / Cops' killing of bipolar man justified,
D.A. finds
San
Francisco Chronicle
The Sonoma County district
attorney's office has concluded that Santa
Rosa police were justified in shooting
and killing a mentally ill man who had
charged at them outside his home and who they
mistakenly believed was armed. Richard DeSantis,
a 30-year-old...
Probe:
Bipolar Man's Shooting Death Justified
KCRA
3 Sacramento
An investigation into the fatal
shooting of a mentally ill man by Santa
Rosa police found that the officers' actions
were justified.
Aripiprazole
Receives Expanded Paediatric Indications
for Bipolar ...
DG
News - USA
Aripiprazole was recently approved
for the acute treatment of manic and mixed
episodes associated with bipolar I disorder
with or without psychotic features ...
No
pole too far if mood takes
The
Australian TIM
Silk doesn't have bipolar
disorder. Until recently, he didn't even
know anyone with the debilitating mental
illness characterised by intense mood swings
...
FDA
OKs Abilify for secondary use against bipolar
disorder
CNNMoney.com
The companies
said the Food and Drug Administration approved
their drug as a secondary therapy alongside
lithium and valproate for treating bipolar
episodes ...
Kindergartner
battles Bipolar Disorder
KSN-TV
Often mistaken as an adult problem, Bipolar
Disorder affected a Wichita Boy even before
the age of two. When Cassandra Sines and
her husband adopted Caleb ...
FDA
OKs Abilify for secondary use against bipolar
disorder
AP
via Yahoo! Finance
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
and Japanese partner Otsuka Pharmaceutical
Co. said Thursday federal regulators expanded
approval for Abilify to aid with the treatment
of bipolar disorder.
Trudeau
doesn't hold back Speaks to Simcoe crowd
about battle with bipolar disorder
The
Simcoe Reformer
When Margaret Trudeau was
diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she said
she "felt
like such a failure." And that's part of the
stigma for someone who has a mental illness
- they don't want to believe it because if
they do, then it's almost like they've failed
at life.
Sister
speaks out on Costa Mesa hospital investigated
for patient dumping
Orange
County Register
Woman says family should
have been told of discharge of her brother,
a bipolar schizophrenic.
Otsuka
and Bristol-Myers obtain expanded approval
for Abilify
Pharmaceutical
Business Review
Otsuka Pharmaceutical and
Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced that
Abilify has received expanded indications
in bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia.
Overview
Of Asenapine Data From Olympia Trial Program
Presented At American Psychiatric Association
Annual Meeting
Medical
News Today
Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE:
SGP) announced that an overview of asenapine
clinical trials from the Olympia program was
presented at the 161st Annual Meeting of the
American Psychiatric Association in Washington,
D.C., May 3-8. Data from the studies, involving
patients with bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia,
were presented in two oral presentations (Abstracts
# 44 and # 80).
Depression,
bipolar support groups available
Times-Standard
EUREKA
The Depression and Bipolar Support
Alliance Humboldt shapter offers free peer-support
groups for those experiencing depression.
... Should kids get these drugs?
Plan
likely to increase scrutiny of ...
TheNewsTribune.com
The drugs are used to treat such conditions
as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. They're
sold under the names Zyprexa, Geodon, Risperdal,
Abilify, ...
Review:
The Devil Within by Stephanie Merritt
guardian.co.uk
For Merritt, bipolar disorder was a devastatingly
real disease that nearly killed her. More
than once, the writer found herself standing
at the edge of a ...
Psychotherapy
expert: Husband's explosive temper
Jerusalem
Post
He may or may not have a bipolar disorder.
Certainly irritability is a key factor in bipolar
depression or mania, but usually it is not time
and place ...
Mentally
Unstable People Likely to Incur More Debt
Only
Finance
Among those with bipolar disorder
the number is more likely to be higher. This
is because over-spending is part of the condition,
experts said. ...
Spending
sprees plunge mental health patients into
chronic debt
Independent
The number is likely to be even higher among
those with bipolar disorder as over-spending
is often part of the condition, according
to experts. ...
Finch
signs for three years
Melbourne
Herald Sun - Australia
... but salary cap
pressure was eased when troubled young
playmaker Tim Smith was let go due to his
ongoing battle with bipolar disorder. ...
A
major swing in diagnosing bipolar disorder
Providence
Journal
But as Zimmerman and his colleagues
talked to these patients, it seemed to
them that a significant proportion didn't
meet the definition of bipolar disorder
...
Bipolar
Expert Will Speak at National Alliance
Dinner
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Lizzie Simon, nationally known author of "Detour:
My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D," will speak at
the National Alliance on Mental Illness Western
Tidewater's ...
Stressful
environment takes toll on mothers' mental
health
The
News - International - Pakistan
A patient
of bipolar disorder experiences two sets
of moods, manic, that is a mood of hyperactivity
and grandeur and mood of depression, ...
Man
fatally shot in Grand Prairie standoff
Fort
Worth Star-Telegram
A standoff ended early
Monday when a barricaded man who had a
gun was fatally shot by a Grand Prairie
police sharpshooter, according to broadcast
news reports. The man, who reportedly was bipolar
and had stop taking his medication, had
been firing a gun inside an apartment in the
500 block of Westchester Parkway, John Brimmer,
police spokesman said. The neighborhood is south
of Interstate 20 at ...
Perceptual
Switch Rates With Ambiguous Structure-from-motion
Figures In Bipolar Disorder
Medical
News Today
Most people believe that the way
we see things is affected by how we feel
emotionally. Does our mood really change
what we see or do individuals with certain
genetic traits always tend to see things differently,
regardless of their mood? Earlier research suggested
that people with bipolar mood disorder might
alternate their perception more slowly when looking
at ambiguous figures.
AstraZeneca
says US watchdog approves bipolar drug
AFP
via Yahoo! News
Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals
giant AstraZeneca said Wednesday that the
US Food and Drug Administration has approved
the use of its Seroquel drug to treat bipolar
I disorder.
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