Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Study probes bipolar disorder



Yale Daily News - Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is one of the most common mental illnesses and a chronic medical disorder. Patients with Bipolar disorder are marked by having emotional ups, downs or both. These emotional variations manifest
Source: www.yaledailynews.com

WOMEN AND MENTAL HEALTH
Ledger - Women and men are equally vulnerable to the most severe type of depressive illness - bipolar disorder or manic-depression - but women have more episodes of depression and fewer episodes of mania. A greater number of women with bipolar disorder have
Source: www.theledger.com

Depression Overview
Local 6 - you menstruate. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) -- occurs during the fall-winter season and disappears during the spring-summer season. Likely to be due to lack of sunlight. Depression may also occur with mania (known as manic-depression or bipolar
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