Judge Roderick Newton, who ruled that the baby born to sedated mother be put up for adoption, tells child her mother wanted to keep her Girl was born to mother, who has bipolar disorder, by court-ordered caesarean 15 months ago… Read More ›
Bipolar disorder
NAC ( N-Acetyl Cysteine ) amino acid offers a potential therapeutic alternative in psychiatric disorders
Contact: Sonja Mak s.mak@update.europe.at 43-140-55734 European College of Neuropsychopharmacology This press release is in support of a presentation by Professor Michael Berk on Monday Oct. 7 at the 26th ECNP Congress in Barcelona, Spain BARCELONA, SPAIN (7 October 2013) –… Read More ›
Why ARE so many people being labelled bipolar? More and more celebrities say they have it, but here a top psychiatrist warns the disorder is far too readily diagnosed, leaving many trapped on ‘zombie’ pills
What it means to be bipolar has undergone a transformation Once seen as rare and disabling, it now vaguely refers to ‘mood swings’ The drugs used to treat the condition are powerful, harmful – and profitable By Dr Joanna Moncrieff… Read More ›
Faulty body clock may make kids bipolar
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Graeme Baldwin graeme.baldwin@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22165 BioMed Central Malfunctioning circadian clock genes may be responsible for bipolar disorder in children. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry found four versions of the regulatory gene… Read More ›
Young adults may outgrow bipolar disorder
2009 study posted for filing Contact: Kelsey Jackson JacksonKN@missouri.edu 573-882-8353 University of Missouri-Columbia MU researchers find evidence that there may be developmentally limited forms of bipolar disorder COLUMBIA, Mo. –Bipolar disorder, or manic-depression, causes severe and unusual shifts in mood… Read More ›
Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed
Simon Kyaga [PRESS RELEASE 16 October 2012] People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 