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• FDA Approves Zyprexa for Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder in Teens

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 539
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) handed Eli Lilly & Co. approval to market its best-selling medication Zyprexa to teens with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. The FDA approved the drug for treatment of schizophrenia or manic/mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adolescents aged 13-17 ...
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• Seroquel Gains FDA Approvals for Add-on Depression Treatment, Pediatric Schizophrenia

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 539
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this past week that two types of Seroquel-brand (quetiapine fumarate) atypical antipsychotic medications have been approved for two different mental health treatments — for use as an add-on treatment for depression, and for pediatric schizophrenia and bipolar ...
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• FDA Approves Lillys Zyprexa For Two Adolescent Indications

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 698
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zyprexa® (olanzapine) in tablet form as an option for the treatment of schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in adolescents aged 13-17 years old. The updated Zyprexa label states that clinicians should take into consideration ...
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• Autism and schizophrenia could be genetic opposites

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Autism and schizophrenia may be two sides of the same coin, suggests a review of genetic data associated with the conditions. The finding could help design complementary treatments for the two disorders. Though autism was originally described as a form of schizophrenia a century ago, evidence for a link has remained ...
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• Burt’s Eye View: Hooray for Hollywood

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 747
  The other day I was asked if I thought I would ever come face to face with writer’s block.  I had to laugh.  Inasmuch as I generally write about things that annoy, frustrate or just plain drive me nuts, running out of material or losing the impulse to complain in print are among the very least of my worries.  ...
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• Alkermes Bets $10M on Long-Lasting Drug Technology from Startup Neighbor, Acceleron

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 651
  Biotech , deals , startups Luke Timmerman wrote: Cambridge, MA-based Alkermes said today it is betting $10 million on a crosstown startup that it hopes has found a way to make the world’s best-selling rheumatoid arthritis drug more convenient for patients. Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS ) has agreed to ...
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• Teaching while Mentally Ill

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 145
  Imagine trying to teach while voices in your head are telling you your students are trying to kill you.  That has been a reality for Elyn Saks, a professor of law, psychology, and psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the University of Southern Californias law school.  This week Saks published an article in ...
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• What would it take to destigmatize schizophrenia ?

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 138
  The current podcast in Radio 4’s great series ‘All in the Mind’ looks at whether a new name would be the solution for destigmatizing schizophrenia. Listen to podcast (30 minutes)Source: BBC Radio 4
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• Autism and Schizophrenia: proof from comparative genomics

  
  The Mouse Trap — Authority: 112
  Image via Wikipedia I have blogged extensively about the Autism and Schizophrenia as opposites on a continuum theory. I remember first putting this theory in words in an article 3 yrs back on the mouse trap titled Autism and Schizophrenia: the two cultures . That 2006 article, in turn, was inspired by Daniel ...
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• Metabolic Issues with Antipsychotic Meds

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 539
  Although experts believe antipsychotic medications are generally effective and well tolerated, the medications do convey a risk for side effects. These side effects can heighten the chance of developing diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disorders. According to researchers, treatment with a number of ...
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• Copy that! DNA underwrites the diametric model of mental illness

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The imprinted brain theory had two distinct origins, both in the late 1990s. First, I developed the idea that Freuds id and ego might be the psychological agents of paternally- and maternally-active imprinted genes respectively, plus X chromosome genes on the mothers side. Imprinted genes are those which are ...
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• Schizophrenia (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry) by Mario Maj

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 165
  Schizophrenia (WPA Series in Evidence & Experience in Psychiatry) | Publisher: Wiley | ISBN: 0470849649 | edition 2003 | PDF | 517 pages | 12,58 mb This series acknowledges the substantial gap that still exists in psychiatry between research evidence and clinical practice: clinicians are sometimes incompletely ...
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• Police rethinking Taser use on mentally ill, inquiry told

  
  TNT - TRUTH ... not TASERS — Authority: 134
  December 1, 2009The Canadian Press/CBC The Halifax police service is training its officers to better defuse volatile situations involving mentally ill individuals so they dont have to resort to using stun guns, a fatality inquiry was told Tuesday.Sgt. Dean Stienburg, who trains police on the use of force, said the ...
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• Taser training evolves with research: officer

  
  TNT - TRUTH ... not TASERS — Authority: 134
  December 1, 2009The Canadian Press/CBCA Halifax police officer in charge of training says the force changes its policies on the use of Tasers as new information becomes available.Sgt. Dean Stienburg said the force is constantly adapting its practices with the weapons as scientific research dictates. He was testifying ...
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• Skunk users ’seven times more likely to suffer from psychosis’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Dec 1 (ANI): Smokers, who take the highly potent form of cannabis known as skunk, have been found to be almost seven times more likely to develop a psychotic illness than those who use the traditional strength drug, says a new study.The first of its kind study by scientists at the Institute of Psychiatry [...]
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• Delusional Disorder

  
  wisnuaji dot com — Authority: 449
  Delusional Disorder or Paranoid Personality Disorder previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a “psychosis” in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in ...
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• Cyber Monday Online Deals,Cyber Monday 2009 Deals

  
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  TrendPK.com Cyber Monday Online Deals,Cyber Monday 2009 Deals:Spooked by unruly crowds and the trampling death of a Wal-Mart worker last year, Claudia Pope-Bayne decided to ditch the Black Friday mayhem this year and take her bargain hunting to the web. I did not want to take part in that,” said the 38-year-old ...
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• Delusional Disorder,Paranoid Personality Disorder

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 463
  TrendPK.com Delusional Disorder,Paranoid Personality Disorder:previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a “psychosis” in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs ...
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• All About Delusional Disorder

  
  scarlett journey — Authority: 143
  Delusional disorder is characterized by the presence of recurrent, persistent non-bizarre delusions . Delusions are irrational beliefs, held with a high level of conviction, that are highly resistant to change even when the delusional person is exposed to forms of proof that contradict the ...
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• Skunk is riskier than cannabis

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  People who smoke the skunk form of cannabis are more at risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, experts suggest.
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