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Lynchburg News and Advance - It wasn’t until after he was 50 years old and in prison that doctors diagnosed Welborn as having a bipolar disorder that needed medicating. “So much of Ed’s past he had no control over,” Odd Fellows site administrator Sherri Robertson said at ...

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Scientists are testing seasickness patches and other surprising options in a challenging search for new ways to treat the crushing depression and uncontrolled mania of bipolar disorder. Also called manic-depression, it's an illness that can rip ...

NPR News - And he profiled ESPN guru John Sawatsky, who devised the network's interviewing technique, and the hyperkinetic Jim Cramer of CNBC, who revealed his struggle with bipolar disorder. Before joining NPR in 2004, Folkenflik spent more than a decade at the ...

Detroit Free Press - Bipolar disorder is described as a manic-depressive brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, ability to function and energy. It affects more than 2 million Americans. Schizophrenia is described as a chronic, severe, disabling ...

Record Searchlight - Serious psychiatric problems like bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies or schizophrenia are too complex to be cured by computer programs. Britain decided to roll out the anti-panic and depression computer programs nationwide after a group of experts ...

San Francisco Gate - Acquaintances and family described him as afflicted with a bipolar disorder. Anti-anxiety medication was found in the motor home. Pitts was the subject of an investigation in 2003 at UC Santa Barbara for threatening a teaching assistant who had given ...

WFTV - Newcomer said that a variety of factors influence the health and mortality rates of people with problems such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. One factor is that people with major mental disorders have a harder time learning ...

Daily Breeze - A woman with bipolar disorder who choked on an orange slice at a Torrance psychiatric hospital was awarded about $1.2 million Thursday by a jury that found staff members were negligent in their treatment. Elizabeth Brandler, 60, said staff members at ...

Terra Daily - As just one example, the Wellcome Trust consortium in England looked at 14,000 cases and 3,000 shared controls, finding variants associated with increased risk of bipolar disorder, coronary artery disease, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, type ...

Rolling Stone - Emo dudes vary the heartbreak guitars with string ballads and a faux show tune for years, say anything leader Max Bemis has had to deal with bipolar disorder, but judging by his band's third album, he's got something else to gripe about -- namely ...