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Could acute postpartum blues signal bipolar disorder

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women treated for severe psychiatric conditions including major depression shortly after giving birth were more likely to be diagnosed as bipolar later in life compared to those whose first psychiatric episode happened at any other time, in ...

Could acute postpartum blues signal bipolar disorder?

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women treated for severe psychiatric conditions including major depression shortly after giving birth were more likely to be diagnosed as bipolar later in life compared to those whose first psychiatric episode happened at any other time, in ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones treated for bipolar disorder

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones sought treatment for bipolar disorder after dealing with the stress of husband Michael Douglas's battle with advanced throat cancer, her representative said on Wednesday."After dealing with the stress of the past year, Catherine made the ...

Bipolar disorder vastly undertreated: study

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bipolar disorder, a brain disorder that strikes early and can cause lifelong disability, is chronically undertreated in many low-income countries, government researchers reported on Monday.Their survey of more than 61,000 patients suggests 2.4 percent of the world's population may ...

Newer antipsychotics overused, U.S. study suggests

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Although first approved to treat schizophrenia, new antipsychotic medications are increasingly being prescribed for a host of other uses, even when there is little evidence they work, U.S. researchers said on Friday.The drugs, known as "atypical antipsychotics," have quickly ...

Suicide risk no higher with epilepsy drugs

BOSTON (Reuters) - Some seizure drugs may not raise the risk of suicide for patients with epilepsy as feared, but they more than double the risk for people with depression, researchers reported on Wednesday.They found evidence that the drugs do not make ...
A study from the Netherlands looked at patients with bipolar disorder in three groups: Reuters reports that the researchers were surprised to find that there was no substantial difference in the number of total days spent in episodes (manic, hypomanic or depressive), ...

Drinking may not worsen bipolar symptoms

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among people with bipolar disorder who strictly followed their medication plan, drinking alcohol did not appear to worsen their mood symptoms, hint findings of a small study from the Netherlands.Bipolar disorder can cause extreme mood swings that ...

Mother found guilty in 4-year-old's drug death

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Boston-area woman was convicted on Tuesday of second-degree murder in the 2006 death of her 4-year-old daughter from an overdose of powerful psychotropic drugs.A judge sentenced Carolyn Riley, 35, to life in prison with eligibility for parole in ...

Drugs can help symptoms of borderline personality

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While there are no drugs that specifically treat borderline personality disorder, some medications can improve certain symptoms of the psychiatric condition, a new research review finds.Borderline personality disorder, or BPD, is a serious mental illness marked by ...
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