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September 19, 2008

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Bipolar Disorder Linked With Hibernation
Post Chronicle
by Staff The discovery came after a 16-year study of a woman suffering rapid-cycling bipolar illness -- an illness characterized by four or more episodes of ...

Missing Balclutha woman found alive
NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News
Police have found a bipolar woman who has been missing since Monday, alive and well.

Daily Briefs
Anime News Network
Buried Treasure - Compiler An utterly insane, a bipolar high- speed assault on sanity and character development that somehow rises to another level. It does so almost entirely by being weird.

Police search for missing Otago woman
NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News
Police say they have grave concerns for a bipolar woman who has been missing since Monday.

Seminar on mental illness set at UTHSC
San Antonio Express-News & KENS
As part of a national series of forums on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression, the University of Texas Health Science Center will host a free public seminar on mental illness this Sunday.

Man who kicked Algonquin officer is released from jail
Northwest Herald
WOODSTOCK - A judge let a 30-year-old man with bipolar disorder and epilepsy out of jail without bond after learning a recent fall was related to his medical care in jail.

Huge risk when sick stop using medication
Margaret River Mail
HALF of all people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder who stop taking their medication will attempt suicide and 40 per cent will end up in prison, placing a huge emotional and financial burden on their families and society, an international study has found.

Come to Jesus
Slate - USA
The cover story confronts the growing number of bipolar children. (Seven percent of mentally ill children have been diagnosed with the disorder. ...

Reach out for help, says suicide prevention speaker
UConn Advance
Using mostly personal anecdotes - his older brother was hospitalized with bipolar disorder when Szabo was 11 years old, and Szabo himself was diagnosed as ...

New York Times - United States James, then 10, had been given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder two years earlier. He was attending a therapeutic day school in another borough and riding ...

Clues to Rapid Cycling Bipolar Disease
Emediawire
German researchers have devised a way to follow gene expression over time in a 64-year-old woman who developed rapid-cycling bipolar illness in her mid-40s. ...

Missing bipolar woman hid from searchers
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
Dianne Lane-Wright, 45, who is bipolar, was reported missing on Monday afternoon, after her vehicle was found down a 40m bank in Bull Creek, 60km southwest ...

From suicide attempt to embracing life
Maryville Daily Forum
At age 17, Hines was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He struggled to find a treatment. In 2000, during his freshman year of college, Hines attempted to ...

Dover group to offer screening for depression
Dailyrecord.com
DOVER -- The Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance of Succasunna, in connection with St. Clare's Multicultural Health Fair, will be hosting a Mental Health ...

Official Comment Count: 996672
ScienceBlogs
Image: Gerald Slota for The New York Times story about bipolar disorder, The Bi | Polar Puzzle. A couple days ago, I heard an interview with Jennifer Egan ...

How to Help Anxious Minds
Newsweek - USA
Do people diagnosed with bipolar disorder "outgrow" their illness as they age? If not, do their symptoms increase or change over time? True bipolar disorder ...

Britney: can she do it one more time?
Irish Independent
There were alleged suicide attempts and outbursts of violence, as well as whisperings of bipolar disorder, drug dependency and late-night drinking sessions. ...

The Bipolar Puzzle
New York Times
What does it mean to be a manic-depressive child?

Blood Tests for Bipolar I Disorder: Quite a Future Indeed
Psychiatric Times
The confluence came about because of what I was doing while sitting next to him.

Man who kicked Algonquin officer is released from jail
Northwest Herald
WOODSTOCK - A judge let a 30-year-old man with bipolar disorder and epilepsy out of jail without bond after learning a recent fall was related to his medical care in jail.

Ask Dr. Gott: Doc's words demand an apology
The Monterey County Herald
Dear Dr. Gott: I've been following your commentary on the professionalism of physicians, and I happen to have bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder puzzling among children
By BA Haller
Fifteen years ago his condition would probably not have been called bipolar disorder, and some doctors might hesitate to diagnose it in him even now, preferring other labels that more directly address James's rage and aggression: ...

Landmark study into bipolar in children and young people
By admin
A recent study by Course and Outcome of Bipolar Illness in Youth COBY found that children and teen-agers with bipolar disorder suffer from the illness differently than adults do with their symptoms lasting longer and changing more ...

Seroquel XL (Quetiapine Prolonged Release): A Once Daily Formulation For Bipolar Mania And Schizophrenia Launches ...
Medical News Today
Today, Seroquel XL (quetiapine prolonged release), a new once daily formulation for schizophrenia and manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder, has become available in the UK.

52 Percent Of Newly Diagnosed Bipolar Disorder Patients Receive Antidepressant Drugs In First-Line Treatment
Medical News Today
Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that 52.3 percent of newly diagnosed bipolar disorder patients are prescribed antidepressant drugs first line.

St. Pete PD search for a missing man
WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News
St. Petersburg police need your help in finding an endangered missing person, Jeffery Burnette. Burnette has been diagnosed as bipolar and has attempted suicide in the past.

Man in car hits construction worker three times
YourHub.com
His wife, whom he was on his way to pick up, said the man's Bipolar disorder might have caused the altercation. She said her husband might have needed to ...

Childhood bipolar disorder mystifies many
SmartBrief
More children are being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but psychologists don't yet agree on the symptoms that characterize the pediatric form of the ...

New Findings on Children and Mental Illness
Voice of America - USA
Now, scientists are finding evidence of a similar link for bipolar disorder. This disorder is marked by periods of extremes in mood and behavior. ...

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