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Media Scan
Indianapolis Star
Living with bipolar disease is a challenging experience; Karla
Dougherty writes from personal experience in Less Than Crazy:
Living Fully with Bipolar II ... |
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Bipolar Chandler Author To Hold Book Signing
Tyler Morning Telegraph
Chandler resident Melody Stroud will hold a book signing for her
recently published book, "In My Head: Living My Life with
Bipolar," from 1 to 4 pm Saturday ... |
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Study: Mental Illness Alone is no Trigger for Violence
411mania.com
My mother suffered from Bipolar Disorder for years before she
was actually diagnosed and treated for it. And then of course
there's substance abuse ... |
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Play At Barrington Stage Aims To Destigmatize Mental Illness
Advocate
"Living With It," written and performed by Frank La Frazia, will
bring the light of day to living with bipolar disorder. La
Frazia, BSC's director of the ... |
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Understanding and Managing Adolescent Disruptive Behavior
Psychiatric Times
This concept is best illustrated through the controversial topic
of pediatric bipolar disorder that for many has become
synonymous with deficiencies in ... |
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Mourning Period -- Losing Your 'Old Self' After A Bipolar
Diagnosis
EmpowHer
Being diagnosed bipolar can be a huge trauma. The diagnosis
often comes with hospitalization. And, with the diagnosis
usually comes medication. ... |
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Glenmark Unit Gets US Nod For Lithium Carbonate Capsules
Reuters India -
The drug is used in the treatment of bipolar disorders and had
annual sales of $10 million, the company added in a statememt.
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Letters
Philadelphia Weekly
webhead: Letters -- Bipolar Winter Regarding Jacob Lambert's
recent cover story about dealing with his brother David's mental
illness: As a psychiatrist working in a community mental health
setting, I am all too aware of the systemic deficiencies
highlighted in this article. Certainly profit-driven insurance
companies and health facilities shoulder some of the
responsibility for ...
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Bipolar Disorder Linked To Risk Of Early Death From Natural
Causes
Science Daily T
People with bipolar disorder have a higher death rate from
natural causes compared to people in the general population of
the same age and gender but without mental illness.
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FDA Dictates Suicide Ideation Warning for Antiepileptics Used
for Bipolar Disorder
Psychiatric Times
The FDA is forcing manufacturers of all antiepileptic drugs to
include new warnings of possible suicide ideation in the
prescribing information and also to prepare a new Medication
Guide to be distributed by pharmacies to consumers.
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Workers Question Backdated Payment
The Daily Citizen
He takes medications to counteract manic depression and bipolar
disorder, said his wife Tammy. She has worked at R&R for five
years, and takes medication ...
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Tax Dodger Sentenced In Home Repair Scam
Naperville Sun
Federal authorities said Qualtier has been convicted of 19
crimes over a 24-year period. A psychologist testified last year
Qualtier suffers from bipolar ...
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Big Pharma Gone Wild
AlterNet
How else do you explain a drug for schizophrenia (1 percent of
the population), bipolar disorder (2.5 percent) and
autism-related irritability in children 5 ...
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Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research Benefit Show
antiMUSIC
A top story from this week. The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for
Bipolar Research will hold its first benefit concert Sunday,
March 1, 2009 …
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Why Bipolar Disorder Patients Don't Take Medicine
Blogcritics.org
I miss the mania. I miss me. Going by the title, you all thought
I was going to write about a huge white bear of a questionable
sexual orientation, huh? Well, no. Not so much.If you know
anybody who knows anybody who knows somebody who has bipolar
disorder, then you yourself have asked or you have heard someone
else ask, "Why don't they take their medicine?" By...
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Graduates Of YMCA Program For Troubled Youths Bemoan Its Loss
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Others had severe bipolar disorder. One girl stayed there when
she was pregnant, and another had just been emancipated from the
state at 16 and had nowhere ...
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The Best Deals On Great Rooms In Marin County
Coastal Post
That's where we need to be, holding their hand and whispering in
their ear, Neurontin for pain, Neurontin for monotherapy,
Neurontin for bipolar, ...
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Community Support Groups
Winston-Salem Journal
TIDES, a support group for adults with clinical depression and
bipolar disorder, meets at 10:30 am the first and third Friday
and at 7 pm the first and ...
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Community Meetings, Activities
Daily Mail
The Depression-Bipolar Support Group will meet from 6:30 to 8 pm
Wednesday at St. John's Episcopal Church on Quarrier Street. …
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Program Helps Families Cope With Mental Illness
Hilton Head Island Packet -
Their son, Michael, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder as
a senior in college several years before, but had stopped taking
his medication. ...
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Magnets Fight Depression -- Research Summary
Ivanhoe
Other disorders include dysthymia (chronic, less severe
depression) and bipolar depression (the depressed phase of
bipolar disorder or manic depression). ...
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This Month in Archives of General Psychiatry
Archives of General Psychiatry
Bipolar disorder was associated with a decrease in total
cortical volume, while white matter volume decrease was related
to the genetic risk to develop ...
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A Special Benefit Concert In Memory of Sean Costello
Blogcritics.org
You see, about a year earlier, Sean was diagnosed with bi-polar
disorder — also known as manic-depressive illness. He was going
through treatment for this ...
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Man To Stand Trial In Death Of Parents
DetNews.com
... who has been treated for mental illness and diagnosed as
bipolar with schizophrenia, was criminally insane at the time of
the Feb. 21 deaths. ...
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Safe Haven Meant Kids Finally Got Right Help
Bellevue Leader
He has a
new diagnosis of bipolar disorder, one of a number of safe haven
children whose post-dropoff psychiatric evaluations have
uncovered new mental ...
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Knapp: Six Years Later, Robbins Still Finding His Way
San Francisco Chronicle
He disappeared from the Raiders' team hotel in San Diego, made a
road trip to Tijuana and layered an intoxicated stupor over a
bipolar haze. ...
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A Barret Robbins Timeline
San Francisco Chronicle
Hospitalized, diagnosed as bipolar, and sent to Betty Ford
Center. Arrested at Sir Francis Drake Hotel and accused of
assaulting a security guard. ...
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Children Should Be Allowed To Be Sad
guardian.co.uk -
The expansion of the "diseases" of childhood - attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, autistic disorders and now bipolar
diagnoses - goes along with the ...
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Big Pharma Breaks The Law And Pays Up
Common Ground.ca
Zyprexa belongs to a relatively new class of antipsychotic drugs
approved to treat people suffering from schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder. ...
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Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
Creators Syndicate
Grace may be suffering from bipolar disorder. Many cases go
undetected until adolescence and adulthood, when the behavioral
problems become so intolerable ...
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Parents Invited To Workshop On 'Shut Up About ... Your Perfect
Kid'
Swampscott Reporter
“In the last 10 years, the number of US children with bipolar
disorder has increased a staggering 40 percent. Additionally,
one in 150 children is diagnosed ...
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Psychological Processes In Bipolar Affective Disorder: Negative
...
British Journal of Psychiatry
Psychological processes in bipolar disorder are of both clinical
and theoretical importance. ...
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Jessica Barnes is Missing
Texas Examiner
Barnes suffers from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and left
without any of her medications or other personal belongings.
Barnes was last seen in the ...
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Alexza Cuts Staff, Ends Endo Deal
FierceBiotech
... its lead product candidate in late-stage clinical
development for the acute treatment of agitation in patients
with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. ...
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Avacta Takes Over TheraGenetics to Expand into Clinical
Diagnostics
Genetic Engineering News (press release)
TheraGenetics is developing pharmacogenetic tests for
schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, Alzheimer’s, and
ADHD. “We have made tremendous progress ...
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Mylan Wins FDA Approval For Generic Lamictal
SmartBrief
The FDA cleared Mylan's version of Lamictal, a treatment for
bipolar disorder and epilepsy from GlaxoSmithKline. The approval
covers strengths of 25 mg, ...
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Top 12 Depression Drugs
InjuryBoard.com
ABC News featured patients who chose to come forward to talk
about their struggles with major depression and bipolar
disorder, coming from a point where it ...
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Off-Label Drugs Prescribed Without Clinical Evidence Call For
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Modern Medicine
The agent was approved for schizophrenia in 1997, but is
commonly used to treat bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is the
most common off-label use found in ...
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Westporter Pleads Guilty To Lesser Charges
The Hour
Court records show that Speirs was being treated for bipolar
disorder since March. After his arrest, he admitted to drinking
vodka and taking medication for ...
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Walking The Regulatory Line
WHYY - Philadelphia,PA,USA
While the FDA okayed Zyprexa specifically for schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder, doctors frequently prescribe it for
depression, dementia, and anxiety. ...
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Doctor Scrutinized For Drug-Firm Ties Gets Kudos From Bipolar
Patients, Kin
Boston Globe
"Emergency - Andrew." Marcie Lipsitt found that all she had to
do was page Dr. Joseph Biederman or another doctor on his
pediatric psychiatry team with that message, and she would get a
call back within two minutes to help her through her son
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