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July 9, 2010

Bipolar woman pleads not guilty in boy's death
CTV British Columbia  
A Grand Forks, B.C., woman has pleaded not guilty during the start of her second-degree murder trial in the death of a 12-year-old autistic boy.

6th Annual Mood Disorders Education Day
San Jose Mercury News
On July 24, five of Stanford's most esteemed psychiatrists will talk with the community about mood disorders (major depression disorder and bipolar ...

Program for kids with mental illness low on cash
Seattle Post Intelligencer
One of the children is 10-year-old Levi Warner of Pasco, who has Asperger's syndrome and bipolar disorder. "It's really nice to have the day program that ...

Police: Missing Vulnerable Adult Found In Mpls.
WCCO
Police said Mays is severely mentally retarded and bipolar. Witnesses saw her about a half hour later near North Penn Avenue and North 26th Avenue asking ...

Pfizer Cancels Late Stage Drug Trial (NYSE: PFE)
American Banking News
Geodon is marketed by Pfizer to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in results. One of the factors which lead to the cancellation of the test was the ...

Substance Abuse and Switch From Depression to Mania in Bipolar Disorder
Am J Psychiatry (subscription)
To the Editor: The recent Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) article by Michael J. Ostacher, MD, MPH, et al. ...

Multiple Symptoms Can Point to Bipolar Disorder
PhysOrg.com
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) defines bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depressive illness) as a brain disorder that causes unusual ...

Germantown man gets 8-year sentence for stealing laptop
Business Gazette
"What Mr. Mosley needs is to be in an inpatient mental health program," said Chernosky who added that her client suffers with ADHD and is also bipolar. ...

Police seeking leads for missing Jacksonville man
FayObserver.com
Family members have been searching for Hayes, who suffers from bipolar disorder, since then and have exhausted all leads, Grubb said. ...

Wash. woman worried about missing Utah father
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Malinda Trujillo-Gonzalez says her father needs immediate medical care as he suffers end-stage kidney disease that requires dialysis, and bipolar ...

Recognizing The Signs Of Depression In Your Teen
Northland's NewsCenter
For almost ten years, Chad McCord suffered silently from severe depression and bipolar disorder. "He said, 'and I always felt this whole time that I was the ...

Woman sentenced for alleged ex-boyfriend's stabbing
WXXA
She suffers from bipolar disorder. The Post Star reports friends and family say Mattison had not taken her medication for weeks prior to the stabbing.

Housing, services helping people overcome problems
Martinsville Bulletin  A woman with drug problems who is bipolar had been in the Henry County Jail for two years for convictions on assault and child support charges before being admitted to Piedmont Community Services Jail Diversion Project in October.

Rabbi battling an ex-wife, too
New York Post
The rabbi's lawyer, Ira Garr, told us: "When the rabbi announced he had bipolar disorder, she took this as an opportunity to strike. He is a good father, ...

Man made bomb threat after row over benefits
Bristol Evening Post
Prosecutor Rob Allen said: "He has bipolar, which causes euphoric highs and lows. He said he was very sorry for his behaviour and recognised that he was ...

Mesquite teen with mental disability struggled in a broken system
Dallas Morning News
Ken and Susan Koshar struggled for months to find help for grandson Jeremy Andrew Brown, who has bipolar disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and an ...

Mad? Sad? Glad? People with severe mental illness can't easily 'read' their partner's feelings
PhysOrg.com
For a healthy couple in a romantic relationship, getting along can be hard enough. But what if one person has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression?

 

 


 


 

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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