Study: Bipolar Disorder Commonly Misdiagnosed
FOX News - There is widespread concern that antidepressants may increase suicide risk, but an Italian psychiatric disorders expert says this may only be true when the drugs are used incorrectly. In an essay appearing March 17 in The Lancet, Franco Benazzi, MD …
Curidium Discovers Significant Diagnostic Gene Expression Profiles in Blood of Schizophrenia And Bipolar Patients
Curidium Medica plc, today announced that it has discovered the existence of four unique and statistically significantly different diagnostic gene expression profiles in blood samples from schizophrenia/bipolar disorder patients.
Study: Antidepressants Offer No Help for Bipolar Disorder
(The New York Times News Service) — Patients seeking treatment for bipolar disorder depression are as likely to get relief from sugar pills as they are from widely used antidepressants, according to a new study.
Antidepressants Don’t Help With Bipolar Depression
Adding antidepressants to mood-stabilizing drugs may not help — or hurt — the treatment of bipolar depression, the depressive phase of bipolar disorder.
The Village Wordsmith: Bipolar bears
San Antonio Express News - A story about the mother of two slain children crossed my desk recently, including a sentence that she suffered from bipolar disorder. Knowing no better, I left the sentence in the story. Robert Kolarik, who slotted the story behind me, edited it out …
Screwed up body clock may be the root cause of bipolar disorder
SAWF News Connect - A new study by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, US, has found that the bipolar disorder commonly known as manic-depression, may be due to a screwed up body clock. Email this page Psychiatrist Dr. Colleen …
Bipolar youth hopped facilities before his death
Houston Chronicle - By the time Ruben Gonzales was 9 years old, his own mother was calling the Texas child abuse hotline from her Fort Bend County home and filing a complaint against herself in a desperate plea for help with her troubled, bipolar son. There was no …
Bipolar Disorder
HealthScout - Related Encyclopedia Article updated and reviewed by Christos Ballas, MD, Attenting Psychiatrist, Inpatient and Consult/Liaison Psychiatry, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on April 11, 2005. There are two basic mood disorder categories are …
Bipolar Scientist Shares Story
Harvard Crimson - As a senior in high school, Kay Redfield Jamison spent her days contemplating killing herself. At age 28, after years of debilitating depression, she overdosed on lithium in a suicide attempt that landed her in a coma. Last night, Jamison, now a …
Bipolar challenge: decisions
NorthJersey.com - A reader was concerned when her daughter, who has bipolar disorder, was making poor — even risky — social choices. Her concern was heightened when a psychologist warned that, without treatment, her daughter would continue to make these choices …