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Archive for September, 2007

Food Additives & ADHD

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Theories of what causes ADHD seem to grow with each day. There are a variety of biological and environmental theories that tend to get most of the press and truthfully have the most credibility. However, ...

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The Death of Bipolar Child Rebecca Riley on 60 Minutes

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Tonight, Katie Couric interviewed both the mother of Rebecca Riley (the former is charged in the latter's death) and Dr. Joseph Biederman, the guy who basically helped "invent" childhood bipolar disorder (as we reported ...

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Childhood Abuse & Mirgraine Headaches

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Recent research is showing that people who struggle with migraine headaches and depression often have a history of abuse from childhood. The idea is that somehow the abuse "primes" the brain for migraine, meaning ...

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Mental Illness Campaign in Chicago and Milwaukee

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

We give a big kudos to the cities of Chicago and Milwaukee for running advertisements on their respective public buses, in an effort to better educate the public about mental illness and its continuing stigma ...

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Comedians for Suicide Prevention

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

If you're in the greater New York City area or northern New Jersey area, I'd encourage you to consider attending a comedy benefit for suicide prevention on Oct. 18 at the State Theatre in ...

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Bipolar Disorder Scapegoated on Oprah

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

We missed the discussion of bipolar disorder on Oprah that occurred on Monday of this week, but Furious Seasons caught it. He believes the program "paint[ed people with bipolar disorder] as inherently violent ...

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The New York Times New Health Blog & Our Sanity Score

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

You may have not noticed, but The New York Times started a new health blog this week, by the experienced health writer Tara Parker-Pope, whose last gig was at the Wall Street Journal. We're ...

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Suicidal Genes Discovered

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

The Oct. 1 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry will release both a study and editorial suggesting that a set of suicidal gene markers have been discovered. That is, people with these markers have ...

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Men Happier Than Women?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

According to today's New York Times, Americans are increasingly facing a happiness gap -- men are becoming more relaxed and happier than women. It's an article that describes how two recent studies appear to ...

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Provigil for Bipolar Depression

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

"Bipolar depression" refers to someone who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but is the midst of a depressive episode (one-half of what defines bipolar disorder). While a type of medication call a mood ...

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On Virtual Friendships and Social Networking

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

What is all this online social networking stuff really about? Perhaps it just our modern version of portraits, of a modern narcissism that fits in with our oh-so-modern lifestyle. That is Christine Rosen's thesis for her ...

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$1M to Va. Tech for Counseling

Monday, September 24th, 2007

You have to love the patchwork society we live in. Trouble spot over here? Throw money at it. Trouble spot over there? Here, have some more money. So with little discussion or debate, the glorious U.S. ...

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