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November 14, 2008


Our world-first: computer test for mood disorders
Northern Daily Leader
TAMWORTH opened its pilot Mood Assessment Program (MAP) yesterday at Life Solutions North West. The world-first program helps in the assessment and diagnosis of conditions such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Election prompts bipolar reaction
The Olympian
I'm having a bipolar reaction to Tuesday night's elections. Honestly, I don't know whether to celebrate or to cry. While hundreds of revelers were ...

Safety and Tolerability of Quetiapine in Children and Adolescents ...
DG News
By Laura Gater CHICAGO -- November 6, 2008 -- Quetiapine therapy appears to increase the level of function of children and adolescents with bipolar I ...

Bipolar Tustin woman sentenced for murder
OCRegister
Sajor Reeder testified during the trial that she was diagnosed bipolar at age 24 and been hospitalized and treated for the illness several times. ...

Driver of SUV gets 16 years-plus for deadly crash
San Jose Mercury News
Implied malice was alleged because she stopped taking her bipolar medication and she was convicted of reckless driving five years earlier.

Repligen Initiates Phase 2b Clinical Trial of RG2417 in Bipolar ...
MarketWatch - USA
This Phase 2b study is a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in which approximately 150 patients with bipolar ...

Dad documents Dale Erwin's struggle with bipolar disorder
Florence Morning News
Dale Erwin was well known member of Gresham Grass who disappeared while sailing and has never been found. In a recent book, his father documents Erwin's battle with bipolar disorder.

Speaker to discuss mood disorders
Daily Record
ROXBURY -- The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of Succasunna is hosting a lecture on borderline personality disorder and its relation to mood disorders.

Another Teen Abandoned In Nebraska
KCCI.com
The woman told officials at BryanLGH Medical Center West that her daughter, who was adopted, is bipolar and has a learning disability, Assistant Police ...

Depressive Symptoms and Diabetes
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
Thus, the absence of depressive symptoms during a 1-week time frame could represent a state of a remitted bipolar or recurrent depressive disorder. ...

Four new books tell the true stories of mental illness
USA Today
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, one in 17 Americans suffer from serious mental illness. Four new memoirs deal with the harsh reality of people and families who cope with a chronic, disabling condition. Two focus on bipolar disorder, which is found in about 5.7 million adults. Another examines a family legacy of bipolar disorder and suicide. The fourth addresses ...

18-year-old abandoned under Neb. safe-haven law
The State
Police say a woman has abandoned her 18-year-old daughter at a hospital, saying she can't control the girl, in what may be the latest use of Nebraska's unique safe-haven law. The woman told officials at BryanLGH Medical Center West that her daughter, who was adopted, is bipolar and has a learning disability, Assistant Police Chief Jim Peschong said Monday. "The adoptive mother says that the ...

Video shows Dallas bus driver choking student
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth
DALLAS - A camera captured images of a mentally challenged-bipolar student being choked by a school bus driver in Dallas. On a normal day, the Dallas County bus driver, Janet Pitts, would have a monitor on board to help with students like Xavier, a middle school student.

Club stoush bowls out member
The Advertiser
A MAN suffering from bipolar disorder and depression has been barred from membership at a Sydney bowling club after a clash over club bylaws.

Diane Krupnick: No Mania Here! (or so they allege)
Johns Hopkins News-Letter
A riot in the village of Pawtucket occurred this week, following the diagnosis of a local woman, Diane Krupnick, with bipolar disorder by Dr. Robert Sanguine of Elksburry Road. The response started simply enough as her husband, upon hearing news of the diagnosis, banged on the door of Sanguine's office, reportedly shouting, "She ain't got no mania.

Dad documents Dale Erwin's struggle with bipolar disorder
South Carolina Now
The book cover photo shows Dale during an episode with bipolar disorder. His father Dale Erwin recently published an account of his life from his own and ...

Fallout from a bipolar neighbour
BCLocalNews
They're bipolar and we're chronically depressed. Tough choice, but I believe we're slightly better off. However, being our big, overbearing, ...

Overeating and substance abuse are similar disorders
Los Angeles Times
People with bipolar disorder have higher-than-average rates of obesity and substance abuse. But McIntyre found that the obesity rate in bipolar patients was ...

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This Week's Bipolar News

Rare Deletions Or Duplications Of DNA Tied To Bipolar Disorder
Medical News Today
New research led by University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, finds that rare copy number variants (CNVs) where sections of DNA are either duplicated or missing, seem to play a key role in the risk for early onset bipolar disorder, which appears in childhood or early adulthood. The researchers write about their findings in a paper published online on 22 December in the ...

Where Does My Mental Illness End, And Where Do I Begin?
About - News & Issues
By Marcia Purse, About.com Guide December 22, 2011 From my friend Andy "Electroboy" Behrman comes a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay on the journey through life with bipolar disorder. Is there truly such a thing, he's been asked, as "recovery" ...

Mind over Mood
PsychCentral.com (blog)
She has a Mood Disorder NOS and has been married to her college sweetheart, who has Rapid-Cycling Bipolar Disorder and Attention Deficit Disorder, for 10 years. They are happily married, have three kids, and live in the Midwest, USA.

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