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She was open throughout her life about having bipolar disorder. Her openness about this mental illness gained her plaudits from the healthcare community because it raised awareness of this condition among the public. ...
Carrie Fisher: Bipolar disorder Carrie Fisher was an American actress most well known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films (1977-1983 and 2015-2019). ...
The discovery could lead to better new treatments for neurological disorders such as anxiety, autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. In determining the structure of this transporter, one of the smallest proteins ever made, researchers have opened up new avenues to improve drugs for a variety of debilitating diseases, including ...
It was my own voice talking about depression, agony, hopelessness,” said Deirdre Lehman, a woman in her 60s who had tenuously contended with bipolar disorder for over a decade. After receiving groundbreaking depression treatment, Deirdre went on to describe the relief as follows: “By lunch, I could look my husband in the eye…That was the most ...
The onset of most chronic psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is attributed to a complex interplay of multiple genetic and environmental risk factors, and most onset occurs before the age of 30. In this study, the team first noted that patients with schizophrenia and bipolar ...
Prenatal depression is the most common mental illness experienced by pregnant women and yet it is often under detected and under treated by health care providers. Bipolar disorder (BD) – Pregnant women with bipolar disorder have seven times the risk of being admitted to hospital compared to a pregnant woman who does not ...