Monday, March 19, 2007

Feinstein Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Lab join forces, seek manic



PhysOrg - Psychiatry and genetics researchers tackle the genetics of early-onset bipolar disorder in children and adolescents Psychiatric researchers from The Zucker Hillside Hospital campus of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research announced today they
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Bipolar disorder more common than thought
Health 24 - The study findings also indicate that as many as 80 percent of those who screened positive for bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, hadn't been diagnosed with the illness, and nearly one-third had been misdiagnosed with major depression.
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February 2007
Belief.Net - that "genetically identical twins are more than twice as likely to share these diseases (unipolar or bipolar) than are genetically fraternal or nonidentical twins." However, a sibling or child of a person with major depression or manic depression
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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
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