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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.
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Music executive who faked his death pleads guilty
WZTV
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collects royalties for songwriters, was living as a homeless man
in Arizona. Tennent said Grothe has been diagnosed with bipolar
disease and depression.
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Diagnosis Weapons -- Research Summary
Ivanhoe
Some of the more well-known mental health disorders include schizophrenia,
depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, autism, attention
deficit ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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). ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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Bipolar Disorder Risk In Men, Women?
ABC
News
Dr. Gary Sachs answers the question: 'Bipolar Disorder Risk In Men,
Women?'
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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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