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Synosia Therapeutics today announced that it has signed an exclusive, worldwide licensing agreement (outside of Japan) with Novartis Pharma AG to develop and commercialise rufinamide for the treatment of anxiety disorders and bipolar mood disorders. This is the second
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Check Up From the Neck Up, the campaign to let people take control of their mental health, is going Ontario-wide. The checkup, private and self-administered online at checkupfromtheneckup.ca, received almost 2 million hits by last fall, after organizers asked 300,000
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Ripping the edge of the couch with tiny hands, Kira Carrington inched her way over the carpet on bare toes, her blue eyes fixed on Kitty, the family cat. When Kitty spied the baby reaching for her, she slipped around
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Neither your bulletproof vest nor your duty weapon can protect you from mental illness. Mental illness knows no age, gender, ethnicity, age, or profession. As a cop, you are as susceptible to mental illness as anyone else. The lifetime prevalence
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In the past few years, complex genetic diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes have slowly yielded their genetic secrets. But depression and bipolar disorder, two mood disorders that take a massive toll on public health worldwide, have yet to succumb
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Caffeine isn’t the only thing keeping Harvard students wired these days. The newly-formed Harvard Interactive Media Group (HIMG) is trying to spur a new way for undergrads to connect to each other, largely by connecting them to the machines they
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Treatment of mice with a ‘friendly’ bacteria, normally found in the soil, altered their behavior in a way similar to that produced by antidepressant drugs, reports research published in the latest issue of Neuroscience. These findings, identified by researchers at
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Most drivers arrested for the first time for driving while intoxicated are also likely to have drug abuse problems or psychiatric disorders, a new study finds. That suggests that intervention programs for first-time DWI offenders should focus on more than
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Giving patients with bipolar disorder antidepressants on top of their mood stabilizer medications does not relieve their depression any better than an inactive pill called a placebo, said researchers who reported on this large, multi-center study that appears online today
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Legal proceedings are complex at the best of times. When a court case involves a defendant suffering from mental illness, the law suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. Psychiatry is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment
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What does a laboratory mouse have in common with Napoleon? Not much, if the mouse’s internal clock is ticking normally. But mutate an essential timekeeper gene, and the rodent develops something akin to bipolar disorder, the mental illness that afflicted
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Having salmon for dinner is not just good for your heart, it may also improve your disposition, according to a University of Pittsburgh study. It found that omega-3 fatty acids, which are plentiful in fatty fish like salmon, seem to
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