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E-mail: guangchen@mail.nih.gov Received 8 November 2009; Revised 26 December 2009; Accepted 31 December 2009; Published online 9 February 2010.

Dr. Daniel Hall-Flavin, board certified in general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry, is a St.

Recently a lot of people have been searching the internet for information about Trileptal , which is an anticonvulsant drug used as a mood stabilizer in treating bipolar disorder.

Tags Abstract Lithium is widely used to treat bipolar disorder, but its mechanism of action in this disorder is unknown.

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Welcome to the first posting of Bipolar You - a blog about bipolar disorder . What distinguishes this from the many blogs you'll find across the web is the specific focus upon bipolar disorder during the university years.

Foreword by Frederick K. Goodwin. Washington, D.C. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2008, 316 pp., $45.00 Charles L. Bowden, M.D. San Antonio, Tex.

The San Antonio State Hospital is offering a free seminar on Bi-polar Disorder, as well as its signs, symptoms and treatment.

Abbott Laboratories this morning reported flat fourth-quarter earnings amid the global economic downturn and increased generic competition to its once blockbuster bipolar and epilepsy treatment Depakote.

Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic-depressive disorder, is a psychiatric illness consisting of episodes of elevations in mood, either mania or hypomania.

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A psychiatrist for a 4-year-old girl whose mother is accused of giving her a fatal prescription drug overdose acknowledged Monday that she repeatedly increased the dosages after the mother reported the girl was aggressive and had trouble sleeping.

Friday, 16 June 2000, 2:43 pm Press Release: News Release Friday, June 16, 2000 Additional budget funding of $3 million per year* for the Health Research Council has enabled 12 new projects to be funded, two of which will search for the genes involved in depression and bipolar disorder.

PATIENTS suffering with bipolar disorder will benefit from a new scheme to improve understanding of manic depression.

The Stanford Blood Center will sponsor a Caf Scientifique program Jan. 28 titled, "Out of sight, out of mind: Monologues on mental-health issues." The program will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. at the center's Palo Alto site, 3373 Hillview Ave.

Australian researchers hope a curious visual phenomenon will improve our understanding of manic depression and may one day lead to a diagnostic test.

Abstract Aggression is a common symptom of many psychiatric disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, Tourette's disorder, mood disorders , substance-related disorders, alcohol-related disorders, mental retardation, pervasive developmental disorders, intermittent explosive ...

Diagnosis of psychiatric illnesses is conventionally made by evaluating behavior and subjective report of abnormal experiences to group individuals into illness categories.

Abstract Lithium is a monovalent cation that was introduced in 1949 by John Cade for the treatment of bipolar disorder.

A DOCTOR has been struck off the medical register for giving a woman 22 prescriptions for mood-altering drugs, knowing she was secretly spiking her husband's coffee with the tablets for four years.