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May 08, 2009

 

Lithium May Help Radiation Target Cancer, Spare Healthy Tissue
Medical News Today
 
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how lithium, a drug widely used to treat bipolar mood disorder, also protects the brain from damage that occurs during radiation treatments. In the May 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Fen Xia, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Music executive who faked his death pleads guilty
WZTV  

... collects royalties for songwriters, was living as a homeless man in Arizona. Tennent said Grothe has been diagnosed with bipolar disease and depression.

 

Living with a crazy husband
Seattle Post Intelligencer
 
Specifically, it was a symptom of the manic side of "manic-depressive illness," also known as bipolar disorder. Like many bipolar sufferers, ...

 

Man held in slaying of Denver 7-Eleven clerk
Denver Post  

At that time, Baylis' mother told the Rocky Mountain News that her son was bipolar and innocent. Baylis is currently being investigated for first-degree ...

 

Laura Yeager: Hypersexuality and Bipolar Illness
EmpowHer
 
What a strange disease bipolar illness is. It can make you want to go out and sleep with countless strangers. And these days with sexually transmitted ...
  

Tim Smith chasing NRL comeback?
Rugby League Live  
... weeks at UK Super League club Wigan, walked out on the Eels last year after a string of indiscretions and revealing he suffered from bipolar disorder. ...

 

Agony with autistic child prompts writing of special needs manual
Knoxville News Sentinel
David, who has autism and bipolar disorder, had come to believe that he was a dinosaur who had to cleanse the world of humans to make the world safe for ...

 

Zydus gets nod from USFDA to market Risperidone Tablet
Myiris.com
Risperidone is an atypical antipsychotic used to treat adolescent schizophrenia, the mixed and manic states associated with bipolar disorder, ...

 

Meet the poster boy for bipolar disorder
Ottawa Citizen
He's 17, confident and bright, and he has bipolar disorder. He goes to Canterbury High. He wants to help remove the stigma associated with mental illness ...

 

Amber Alert Issued For Missing Homestead Teen
CBS 4
Homestead police spokesman Ed Bowe, Borrego is bipolar and has a history of running away from home. According to her family, they saw her drive off with a ...

 

Breaking the Silence part 2
Niagara Falls Review
A St. Catharines mother whose son attends the day treatment program recently formed a support group for parents of children with bipolar disorder. ...

 

Events promote Mental Health Awareness Month
Ravalli Republic
 
Denelle Pappier has been suffering from chronic depression for decades. Her brother committed suicide after struggling with bipolar disorder and her son has been diagnosed with autism.

 

'I didn't know when I married him that my husband had a mental illness'
Daily Telegraph
 
In Lifeclass this week Lesley Garner advises a reader whose husband suffers from bipolar disorder.

 

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights State Medicaid Developments
Medical News Today
 
Summaries of developments related to state Medicaid programs appear below. Georgia: Georgia has agreed to a $6 million settlement with Eli Lilly in a lawsuit alleging that the drugmaker illegally marketed the antipsychotic Zyprexa, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The drug is approved by FDA to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

 

Mo. man treats mental illness with self-awareness
Southeast Missourian
 

 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- When he was 14, Jacob Zagorac was diagnosed as being bipolar and having attention deficit disorder. That was his first mental health diagnosis. During the next 14 years, nine...

 

A spectrum of disputes
Western Oregon Journal
 
One audience member said the idea was hard for her to make a choice on, because she has worked with mentally-ill persons, stating those with Bipolar ...
 

Dad's mental health affects children too
Reuters
 
Similarly, when fathers suffered from anxiety disorders like PTSD, substance abuse or bipolar disorder, their children were at heightened risk of developing ...

 

Diagnosis Weapons -- Research Summary
Ivanhoe
Some of the more well-known mental health disorders include schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, autism, attention deficit ...

 

Lithium in drinking water lowers suicide rate: study
Water Technology Online
Pharmaceuticals containing lithium are a common treatment for manic depression, also called bipolar disorder, although levels of lithium in the patient's ...

 

Association of Genetic Risks for Schizophrenia and Bipolar ...
Archives of General Psychiatry
Participants Subjects comprised 25 patients with schizophrenia, 36 of their unaffected first-degree relatives, 37 patients with bipolar 1 disorder who ...

 

Changing perceptions about mental illness proves a difficult task
Irish Independent  
Those with mental-health problems had diagnoses that included bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorder and others. ...

 

Daughters Struggle To Keep Mom Conscious
WOWT  
I myself am bipolar and am taking medication for it and I have a couple of children that have some issues, like an attention disorder(possibly ADHD). ...

 

Study raises profile on region's health needs
Henderson Gleaner
Last year, her organization served more than 1100 people for depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and other needs. The organization, an affiliate of the ...

 

Paying attention to the personalities of our leaders (I)
Triumph - Kano,Nigeria

We all can tell when we are relating to schizophrenics and Bipolar Affectively Disordered persons (the two main psychoses…you could also add Delusion ...

 

Follow-up: Man Accused of Cutting Pacemaker from Father's Chest
KCRG
 
... Fierstine faces an attempted murder charge for the April 25th attack. Fierstine's uncle told the Waterloo Courier that jesse suffers from bipolar disorder.

 

Book Review: Bipolar Bare by Carlton Davis
Blogger News Network
by Simon Barrett in Book Reviews, Reviews Bipolar disorder and drugs unfortunately seem to be bed fellows. I was involved with a homeless shelter for ...

 

Family Doctor: Teen's medication interacting, causing side effects
The Canton Repository
 

Geodon is an antipsychotic medication used for schizophrenia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder and acute agitation of schizophrenic patients.

 

Prop. 1E would reallocate mental health money
The Record Searchlight
 

Pat Oetzel said she's known all her life that there was something wrong with her.It wasn't until she was an adult that she finally got an answer and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She said she was lucky Redding Specialty Hospital was around to help her when she needed it.

 

Brain Scans Show Transmission Problems in Bipolar/Schizophrenia
Psych Central
 
For some time now it has been known that certain hereditary factors enhance the risk of schizophrenia or a manic-depressive disorder. However, just how this occurs had remained obscure. German researchers are now able to answer this question, at least for one common genetic variant: the genetic variant impairs the interoperation of certain regions of ...

 

Former bipolar man devoted to sharing help
The Springfield News-Leader
 
Jefferson City -- When he was 14, Jacob Zagorac was diagnosed as being bipolar and having attention deficit disorder. That was his first mental health diagnosis.

 

BENEFIT: The next step in Josh's Journey
Niagara Gazette
 
A Wheatfield family struck by a recent tragedy is turning their pain into positive thinking. Brian and Denise Skrzypek and their son Jaimie lost son and brother Joshua Adam Skrzypek to suicide in January. Joshua, who was 21 years old, suffered the debilitating ups and downs of bipolar disorder.

 

Loving the person within
The Barrie Examiner

Bipolar schizoaffective disorder. It causes her to fluctuate between deep pits of depression and high peaks of mania. It also brings on delusional beliefs ...

 

A Little Help for Mental Health
Human Resource Executive Online  
A lot of times, we've been seeing kids with ADHD being misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder. The treatment for ADHD is a lot different than for bipolar ...

 

Rebecca Riley's doctor now the target of a grand jury
MetroWest Daily News
 
Kifuji diagnosed Rebecca as bipolar with attention deficit disorder when she was 2½. Kifuji prescribed the powerful blood pressure medication Clonidine and ...

 

Mental health bill supporters prod Manchin to sign it
Charleston Daily Mail
 
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The scariest time in Chris Markins life was when he was hospitalized after losing his job and was unable to afford medication for a bipolar condition and suicidal thoughts.But he got transitional help through community-based mental hea...

 

Bipolar Disorder Risk In Men, Women?

ABC News  
Dr. Gary Sachs answers the question: 'Bipolar Disorder Risk In Men, Women?'

 

Mental illness nothing to be ashamed of, says Margaret Trudeau
The Kings County Register
 
BY JOHN DECOSTE NovaNewsNow.com If Margaret Trudeau has learned anything from years of dealing with a bipolar disorder, it's not to be afraid to ask for help. Trudeau was the special guest of the Kings County branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association for an evening presentation April 24 at the Festival Theatre in Wolfville. One of the most recognizable ...

 

Buckingham's bipolar disorder may lead to appeal: lawyer
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News
 
A lawyer representing a notorious St. John's doctor suggested Wednesday that Sean Buckingham's mental health may have been responsible for drug trafficking and sexual assaults.

 

Group seeks to 'Steal, Kill and Destroy' addiction
Junior College - Tyler,TX,USA

Malone was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder and Depression at the age of 13. "I lived my life with a cloud over me, with doctors telling me I had all of this ...

 

Anterior cingulate cortex abnormalities associated with a first ...
British Journal of Psychiatry
 
The anterior cingulate cortex is frequently implicated in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder, but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have ...

 

 

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