Childhood-onset bipolar disorder is more common than believed
News-Medical.Net - Bipolar disorder is estimated to affect approximately 1-3% of adults, but also can affect children and adolescents. Untreated, this disorder is associated with greater risk of drug and alcohol addiction, of interpersonal relationship difficulties, of …
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 …
Effectiveness of Adjunctive Antidepressant Treatment for Bipolar …
New England Journal of Medicine - Background Episodes of depression are the most frequent cause of disability among patients with bipolar disorder. The effectiveness and safety of standard antidepressant agents for depressive episodes associated with bipolar disorder (bipolar …
Organon’s Asenapine Effective in a Phase III Study for the Treatment …
Forbes - SAN DIEGO, May 21 /PRNewswire/ — Asenapine — an investigational drug being developed by Organon, the human healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel, for bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia — was demonstrated to be more effective than placebo in …
Organon’s Asenapine Effective in a Phase III Study for the Treatment …
Forbes - SAN DIEGO, May 21 /PRNewswire/ — Asenapine — an investigational drug being developed by Organon, the human healthcare business unit of Akzo Nobel, for bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia — was demonstrated to be more effective than placebo in …
First genome-wide study revealed genetic roots of bipolar illness
RxPG - By National Institute of Mental Health, [RxPG] The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of which is powerful enough to cause the disease by …
Living with bipolar disorder
Detroit Free Press - Sue Santel-Fenner has a hard time remembering the morning 12 years ago when she could not get out of bed. She mostly relies on her husband, Jim, to describe what happened that day: She was kicking, screaming and punching the air. She was yelling for …