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November 13, 2009

 

Review: Reports on Pfizer drug studies misleading
The Associated Press
... claim Pfizer concealed evidence the epilepsy drug Neurontin didn't work for those unapproved uses, including nerve pain, migraines and bipolar disorder. ...

Memphis Mayor Endorses National Bipolar Foundation
SYS-CON Media (press release)
11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Memphis Mayor, AC Wharton stands up for the outstanding Memphis-based National Bipolar Foundation; a press conference is to be ...

Faulty body clock may make kids bipolar
EurekAlert (press release)
Malfunctioning circadian clock genes may be responsible for bipolar disorder in children. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry ...

Actress Debi Mazar Talks About her Family's Experience with Bipolar Depression
CNNMoney.com (press release)
11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As part of a panel discussion on bipolar disorder, actress Debi Mazar revealed today that her family has been affected ...

How mood mapping helped me beat bipolar disorder
CNN
She first trained as a neurosurgeon until becoming ill with bipolar disorder. She writes for CNN.com about the strategies of mood mapping and mood ...

Smoking Tied to Suicide Risk in Bipolar Disorder
ABC News
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with bipolar disorder who smoke appear to have a heightened risk of suicidal behavior -- possibly because they are ...

Author publishes book after long battle with bipolar disorder
Indiana Statesman
ISU alumna Heather Brown will never forget the date Aug. 16, 1997. It was the night she was locked in a padded cell. It was the night that led to her diagnoses with bipolar disorder. That year after graduating with a degree in printing management, Brown said, marked the constant struggle between her disease and her life.

Bark 4 Care there for families with emotionally disturbed children
Northbrook Star
A Northbrook family saw a need has started a support group families coping with a child or adolescent diagnosed with mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression and ADHD.

Free ADHD, bipolar, and depression information session offered
Florence Morning News
If you want to learn more about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, bipolar, and depression, then you may want to attend an upcoming seminar.

Missing woman had been diagnosed as bipolar
The Mercury
WEST CHESTER A private detective hired by Toni Sharpless' family to find her held a community meeting Sunday to update supporters on the status of the investigation.

Living Out of Darkness: A Fulfilling Bipolar Life Without Medication
PRWeb via Yahoo! News Living Out of Darkness: A personal journey of embracing the bipolar opportunity, by George Denslow, provides a possible alternative to medication for bipolar individuals.

Authorities still investigating murder-suicide
Montgomery County Courier
... where autopsies will be conducted. San Jacinto County Criminal District Attorney Bill Burnett said Bills may have been bipolar and off his medications.

Expert panel to discuss bipolar disorder in Grosse Pointe Woods
U-M Health System News
The University of Michigan will host a free panel discussion on bipolar disorder in Grosse Pointe Woods this December. Bipolar disorder, which can be a ...

Stabbed doc home, hero's dad speaks
Boston Herald
General bipolar clinic where she worked. She declined to comment to reporters at her Belmont home. Her husband, Claude, told reporters that his wife was ...

Some Additional Information on the 4000 Percent Increase in Pediatric Bipolar ...
About - News & Issues (blog)
"There has been a recent national increase in the number of office-based visits with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, with an especially impressive increase ...

DA reviewing Cardall autopsy results
Salt Lake Tribune
Doug Burgoyne, brother-in-law of 32-year-old Cardall, who died June 9 when he was shocked by the Taser as he suffered a bipolar episode on the side of a ...

New bipolar disorder research from Medical University of South Carolina described
Behavioral Health Central (blog)
Work-up then revealed vitamin B-12 deficiency and a family history of bipolar disorder. Her symptoms improved rapidly but partially with benzodiazepines and ...

New Algorithms for the Management of Treatment-Resistant Bipolar
Depression
Psychiatric Times
Dr Vieta led a study to create new definitions and algorithms for the management of treatment-resistant bipolar I and bipolar II depression. ...

Local News Reid Gray Stands Behind His Wife
WOKV
Quinn Gray's attorneys claim she is bipolar and was kidnapped and manipulated by Jasmin Osmonavich. Both Osmomavich and Gray are charged with extortion.

Tragic incidents cast light on mental illness
The Toledo Blade
By JENNIFER FEEHAN BLADE STAFF WRITER When she heard the news that a young man with bipolar disorder had attacked his mother and then turned his rage on Toledo police, Tracey Duty was shocked that officers shot him to death and upset that individuals struggling with mental illness again would be stereotyped unfairly. The Oct. 29 incident in North Toledo was the second time this year that police ...

Events - Depression Bipolar Support Association | Fort Worth Weekly - News, Events, Restaurants, Music
Fort Worth Weekly
7:30pm Fri. Community Room 817-654-7100. Update to the peeves log: Chow, Baby has finally decided to stop punishing Lanny Lancarte for serving chicken surprise at Restaurant Week 2007. Now, two years into ...

Federal prosecutors investigating Abbott about Depakote sales practices
Chicago Tribune
Abbott Laboratories said its sales and marketing practices of Depakote, the widely used drug for bipolar disorder and epilepsy, are under federal investigation.

County cuts mean hard choices for workers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
She has run group therapy sessions at the complex's day treatment program, working with schizophrenic and bipolar patients as part of a "stabilization and ...

Widespread Generic Erosion of Atypical Antipsychotics Will Cause the Bipolar Disorder Drug Market to Decline By More ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that widespread generic erosion of branded atypical antipsychotics will cause the bipolar disorder drug market to decline from $6.3 billion in 2008 to approximately $5 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Akhileshwar Sahay | Life lessons from one man's fight with bipolar disorder
Livemint
Sahay's bipolar disorder dominates his life. It can wreck his sleep cycles, and his medication can artificially depress his mood New Delhi: A few years ago, ...



 













 

 


 


 

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Frat brothers honour classroom genius who suffered bipolar disorder
London Free Press
After a short time at Western, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was 19. "He must have researched the disease before he told us about it, ...

Patrick Kennedy Talks Retirement
Daily Beast
But despite his public battles with addiction and bipolar disorder, and his waning popularity among his constituents, the Rhode Island congressman, ...

Knowledge Is Necessity: Grading Bipolar - Looking Back At My DSM-5 ...
By John McManamy
The draft DSM-5 got off to a bad start by repeating the errors of previous DSMs, namely by copying and pasting the unipolar depression checklist into bipolar as if all depressions are the same. Not only are they different, but anomalies ...

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If you have bipolar disorder, you should be taking medication to control it. You also should be following a good treatment program that involves seeing a doctor, psychiatrist, and therapist. However, there are other keys to living a happy, healthy bipolar lifestyle. I'll go over a few ways here, but you can find more at my website devoted to bipolar disorder.

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