Showing posts with label bipolar disorder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bipolar disorder. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Treatment Guidelines and GSK's Open Disclosure

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Last week, I noted that a recently published article had found that studies favoring GSK's "mood stabilizer" Lamictal tended...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

Lamictal: Break Out the Shovel

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GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of lamotrigine (Lamictal), the antiepileptic drug used widely for bipolar disorder, happily hid clinical tr...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

BOLDER Update: Lilly Started It

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Some of my longstanding readers probably remember that I long ago wrote about a statistical issue in the Seroquel trials for bipolar depres...
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Monday, May 12, 2008

Bipolar Overawareness Week Starts With a Bang

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As I mentioned last week, Bipolar Overawareness Week begins today.  There is a little bit of media coverage about  the latest study  from Zi...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Bipolar Overawareness Week Starts on Monday

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It appears that the massive bipolar awareness campaigns from NAMI and various drug companies have paid off big time. The conclusions of a...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Furious Seasons is On Fire

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Furious Seasons suffers from a chronic case of excellence, but standing out even more than usual were a quartet of posts today that should ...
Monday, May 05, 2008

In the Name of Science and Charity

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Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons has noted that Eli Lilly released a short report in which they describe the funding they provided to a var...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Genetic Testing for Bipolar: Are You Kidding Me?

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Academics Dr. John Kelsoe and Kurt May have fired the warning shot: Genetic testing for mental disorders is on its way. Like much else in t...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

Link-O-Rama, Early March Edition

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A few pieces of interesting news... Dr. Daniel Carlat has been busy. He aptly notes that Pristiq is an Effexor copycat that apparently pro...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Why I Love the Discussion Section

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A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology found that aripiprazole (Abilify) offered no benefit over placebo in treating ...
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Friday, February 01, 2008

Mood Stablizers and Suicide

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As reported on Pharmalot and Furious Seasons , the antiepileptic/"mood stabilizer" class of drugs has been stuck with a suicide w...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

Bipolar Explosion, Spot-On Parody, and Other Highlights

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A number of great posts have emerged across the wonderful world of health blogs as of late. In particular, check out the following on bipola...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Zyprexa for Teen Bipolar

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Zyprexa for teen mania is great, except for the Fat Camp Factor -- from the study abstract : The mean baseline-to-endpoint weight change wa...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Subthreshold Bipolar: Told You So!

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I Said: This is one of those "you heard it here first" moments that you might read about at times on a site like Peter Rost'...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Subthreshold Bipolar Disorder: Update

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The internet is abuzz with discussion about subthreshold bipolar disorder. There seem to be two camps forming (with some slight variations ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Time for a New Name DUMBASS-$

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Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons has started a contest where readers can throw in their bid for naming the newly christened version of bipol...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

More on the New Bipolar Disorder

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Philip Dawdy has chimed in smartly on the subthreshold bipolar diagnosis and its implications. Background here and here . Here's one ...
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Subthreshold Bipolar: Media Blitz and Lilly

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I posted in lengthy form yesterday about the newly legitimated "subthreshold" bipolar disorder (hereafter referred to as SBD ) tha...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Subthreshold Bipolar: The Giant Sucking Sound

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Just how many people have bipolar disorder AND what is the deal with “subthreshold” bipolar disorder? Research in the latest Archives of G...
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