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A glaring shortfall of current antidepressant medications involves the need to take a drug for a particular length of time (often a month or more) before the effectiveness of the medication can be ascertained. During the long wait to begin
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David Harkins, a 55-year-old who needs medication to help with his bipolar disorder, lives with a college student in a private dorm near USF. Mental illness threw David Harkins’ life into reverse. At 19, he was managing the basketball team
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There’s depression, and then there’s double depression. Sound bad? It is, according to Thomas Joiner, Florida State University Distinguished Research Professor and the Bright-Burton Professor of Psychology, who has identified hopelessness as a distinguishing feature of double depression in a
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Wendy Whelan, a star of the NYCB since 1991, has thought a lot about longevity. She knows that dancers don’t dance forever. “Will I dance after I quit dancing?” she asks ahead of the question. “Absolutely. I feel depressed if
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The author examined physician and patient factors related to recognition of depression in depressed medical patients. Medical inpatients over age 50 were systematically identified with depressive disorder (N=1,000). Medical physicians (N=422) treating these patients were asked whether they believed patients
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Purpose of review: To review mechanisms by which intervention for childhood mental disorders may exert an influence on mental health and wellbeing in adulthood, the challenges to demonstrating long-term benefit or harm from such intervention, existing evidence of long-term benefit,
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Psychomotor slowing (PS) is a cluster of symptoms that was already recognized in schizophrenia by its earliest investigators. Nevertheless, few studies have been dedicated to the clarification of the nature and the role of the phenomenon in this illness. Moreover,
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Targeting enzyme produced by a specific gene may lead to better medications The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of which is powerful
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Mania is a serious condition characterized by extreme excitement, mental and physical hyperactivity, insomnia, and disconnected thoughts. Symptoms of mania are common in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. When associated with these conditions, mania reaches psychotic proportions and often
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Tired, hungry, sad? Maybe your circadian rhythms are having their way with you. Again. “What are these rhythms good for? That is the basic question everyone is asking,” says neuroscientist Colleen McClung, of the University of Texas. Circadian rhythms, which
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You are advocating for yourself and others with a mental illness (June 21 column), which is one of the Foundational Principles of Recovery. The other five concepts – wow – you manage to include most of them, also: Hope, support,
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Years ago, Jess Zaller came to the Pathways mental health program as a day patient. In and out of institutions, he had fought mental illness since childhood. His life felt like a nightmare of chaos and despair. Zaller, 45, was
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