Archive for the ‘Bipolar’ Category
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
AstraZeneca announced that the company has submitted applications in the European Union (EU) under the Mutual Recognition Procedure (MRP) for once-daily SEROQUEL XR(TM) (quetiapine fumarate) Extended-Release Tablets, seeking approval for the treatment of manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder and the treatment of depressive episodes associated with bipolar disorder. This ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Nematode worms treated with lithium show a 46 percent increase in lifespan, raising the tantalizing question of whether humans taking the mood affecting drug are also taking an anti-aging medication. Results of the Buck Institute study, led by faculty member Gordon J. Lithgow, PhD, are currently published online in the ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:NOVN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an approvable letter related to the New Drug Application (NDA) for Stavzor™ (delayed release valproic acid capsules) in 125mg, 250mg and 500mg strengths. The approvable letter relates to the use of Stavzor™ in the treatment ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
New long-term clinical trial data presented recently at the European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) in Vienna showed that SEROQUEL® (quetiapine fumarate) in combination with lithium or divalproex significantly increases the time to recurrence of any mood event in patients with bipolar I disorder.1 Further pre-clinical data demonstrated that three neurotransmitter ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
People with bipolar disorder -- or manic depression -- suffer from an accelerated shrinking of their brain, researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found.
The study shows for the first time that bipolar disorder -- a condition characterised by periods of depression and periods of mania -- is associated with ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
At least one-third of the time, the symptoms of bipolar disorder first appear in childhood or adolescence. However, in children, it can be difficult to distinguish bipolar symptoms from those of other disorders, notes the May 2007 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.
Children, especially ...
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.
This discovery may help the development of drug therapies for the ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
psyadvice.com, the Internet's premier resource for psychological advice, has won the Healthcare Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Interactive Media Awards.
The judging panel, made up of Interactive Media Council members, scored the entries against five key criteria ncluding design, content, usability, standards compliance and functionality.
"It's an honor to have our ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
The research is featured in the July issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry and is currently available online.
Carrie Bearden, a clinical neuropsychologist and ...
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