Bipolar disorder

Drake's 'Nothing Was the Same': Album Review

Drake's 'Nothing Was The Same': Album Review
Following the depressive, PBR&B memoir that was 2011?s Take Care (which won the 2012 Grammy for Best Rap Album), NWTS finds the Canadian MC in a colder and blearier state. Drake has been… Continue reading →

Review: David Finkel's Brutal Accounting of the War After the War

Review: David Finkel's brutal accounting of the war after the war
The most common diagnoses are post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, both of which can lead to anxiety, insomnia, depression and suicidal thoughts. That's about half a million… Continue reading →

Public Lecture: New Approaches to Treatment of Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Part 2 of 4)

Public Lecture: New Approaches to Treatment of Depression and Bipolar Disorder (Part 2 of 4)
This lecture titled “New Approaches to Treatment of Depression and Bipolar Disorder” was presented by Dr. Husseini Manji who is the Global Head of Neuroscien…… Continue reading →

How Many Other Ways Has Society Boosted Our Fears of Disorders by Doubling Up on Identifying Them?

Question by blu: How many other ways has society boosted our fears of disorders by doubling up on identifying them?
I just learned “manic depression” is the same as “bi-polar”.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_manic_depression_and_bipolar_disorder

Why was it necessary to relabel the same disorder?… Continue reading →

Irritability, Anger Indicators of Complex, Severe Depression

Irritability, Anger Indicators of Complex, Severe Depression
The findings were not explained by comorbidity or other manic spectrum symptoms. There was no association … "The most important finding in this paper is that it confirms…that the majority of people with… Continue reading →

Syracuse Man Imprisoned for Bringing Bath Salts to Central New York

Syracuse man imprisoned for bringing bath salts to Central New York
While he's been undergoing treatment, Cizenski has cycled between depressive and manic episodes, "the type of episodes that had caused Mr. Cizenski to self?medicate," Kelly wrote. Cizenski's criminal actions… Continue reading →

Health Watch Perinatal Depression Extended

Health Watch Perinatal Depression Extended
In this extended edition of Health Watch presented by UMass Memorial Health Care Dr. Nancy Byatt discusses perinatal depression, a condition that affects 1 i…


 

 

Raiders talk the talk with teen boys
"Suicide… Continue reading →

Novel Scan May Distinguish Unipolar and Bipolar Depression

Novel Scan May Distinguish Unipolar and Bipolar Depression
A novel brain scanning method that measures cerebral blood flow may help distinguish between bipolar disorder and depression early, new research suggests. A small study of 54 adult women used a new… Continue reading →

Anxiety on the Rise in New Zealand

Anxiety on the rise in New Zealand
“These results are consistent with the latest New Zealand Ministry of Health Mental Health Survey, which reports that about one in seven New Zealanders has been diagnosed with a common mental condition such… Continue reading →

Intolerable Cruelty? Behind the Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones Split

Intolerable cruelty? Behind the Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones split
… him during the treatment, and was apparently drinking and smoking heavily. Soon afterwards, she checked herself into a Pound775-a-night (AU$ 1318) psychiatric hospital in Connecticut suffering from bipolar II… Continue reading →