Showing posts with label John McManamy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John McManamy. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Comments to The People's DSM Articles

My Alternative Depression Diagnosis, My Alternative Bipolar Diagnosis

Comments to DSM-5 Report Card Articles

Grading Depression, Grading Bipolar, etc ...

Monday, January 19, 2009

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Comments to All Science Articles

Psychiatry's Big Bang

Dopamine - Serotonin's Secret Weapon

Inside the Neuron

A Gene Odyssey

Solving the Mood Riddle

The Darwinian Challenge

A Brain Primer

Our Favorite Neurotransmitters

A Gene Primer

Epigenetics

Gene Quest

The Cellular Bipolar Breakdown Lane

Inhibiting GSK3

The World According to DARRP

The Blood-Brain Barrier

Comments to Treating Substance Use Article

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Comments to Meds and Pregnancy Article

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At a symposium at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in May 2003, Zachary Stowe MD of Emory University asked the psychiatrists in the audience how many treat women of reproductive age.

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Comments to Complementary Articles

Nutritional Supplements

Omega-3

SAM-e, St John's Wort

Acupuncture

Comments to ECT and Tickling the Brain Articles

ECT

Tickling the Brain - VNS, rTMS, DBS

Comments to Therapy Articles

Cognitive Therapy

The Talking Therapy Turbocharge

Talking Therapy - The Evidence

Long Term Talking Therapy

Comments to Treating Hypomania Article

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Three years ago, I took a careful read of hypomania in the DSM-IV and had one of those knock-me-over-with-a-feather moments. ...

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Comments to Treating Bipolar Depression Article

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When Nassir Ghaemi MD of Tufts University was in residency at McLean Hospital, he assumed there was no harm in using antidepressants to treat bipolar depression. After all, "depression was depression," or so he and just about every clinician thought. ...

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Comments to Bipolar Meds Articles

Bipolar Meds - An Introduction

Bipolar Meds - The Mood Stabilizers

Bipolar Meds - The Antipsychotics

Long Haul Bipolar Treatment

Comments to Antidepressant Articles

Antidepressants - An Introduction

You and Your Antidepressant

When Your First Antidepressant Fails

When Your Second Antidepressant Fails

Antidepressants for the Long Haul

Comments to Admitting You Need Help Articles

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The toughest challenge on the road to recovery is probably the first - that of admitting you need help. If you’re depressed, the guilt that may be a part of your illness may tell you that you don’t want to burden your loved ones, or that you don’t have a real illness worthy of medical attention. If you're hypomanic, the problem lies in the rest of the world and not you, and in mania you are beyond reason. ...

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Comments to Bipolar Depression Article

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Imagine for a second the psychiatric profession personified as Homer Simpson, with the trademark gesture of the hand smacking the forehead. The collective "Doh!" you hear is the seemingly overnight realization that depression rather than mania is the dominant partner in manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder). ...

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Comments to Alcohol and Substance Use Articles

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"By the time I was 17," writes Brenda on the website Bipolar World, "I was a full-blown alcoholic and that's when the drugs came in. ...

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Comments to Cyclothymia and Rapid Cycling Articles

Cyclothymia

Rapid Cycling

Comments to Diagnosis Articles

What's in Your Diagnosis

Bipolar - Sharpening the Diagnostic Picture

Comments to Psychosis in Mania Article

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In mid-2006, at a session of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders conference in Edinburgh, the conversation started to get particularly interesting. Nick Craddock MD, PhD of Cardiff University was discussing genetic susceptibility to psychosis. The gene research, which he and others have been involved in, is pointing to some apparent common ground between bipolar and schizophrenia. Clearly, some "nosological" (diagnostic classification) rethinking was in order. ...

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Comments to Stress and Anxiety Articles

Stress

Anxiety in Depression and Bipolar Disorder