Recent Bipolar Disorder Articles page 8

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington Post - She admitted herself to a mental hospital, where she received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. O'Connor, calling from Dublin , says the disease is like having "a gaping hole" in the center of her being. The belated diagnosis, she adds, was a "great ...

Medical News Today - ... made over 3,200 grants totaling more than $219 million to top scientists at 418 institutions in the United States and 26 other countries whose research has focused on all forms of severe psychiatric illnesses, including depression, bipolar disorder ...

WebMD - This medication is used with or without other medications to treat certain mental/mood conditions (e.g., bipolar disorder, schizophrenia). Quetiapine is known as an anti-psychotic drug (atypical type). It works by helping to restore the balance of ...

Mile High News - She had just been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had attempted to run away from home at age 12. Her mother, also bipolar, knew of a Family Tree treatment facility that helped runaway, homeless and abused youth. Monica's last name is being kept ...