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Double Success For Leading Cardiff Neuroscientists Two Cardiff University academics, both leaders in different aspects of neuroscience research, have received one of the leading honours in medical science. Professor Alun Davies, of the University's School of Biosciences, and Professor Nick Craddock, of the School of Medicine, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences...
Antiepileptic Phenytoin As A Mood Stabilizer Phenytoin is a well known antiepileptic agent widely used throughout the world. Recent clinical studies in patients with bipolar disorder have suggested that, as for other anticonvulsant drugs commonly used in the treatment of bipolar patients including valproate and carbamazepine, phenytoin may have mood-stabilizing effects in addition to its well-known anticonvulsant properties...
Serious Disturbances In Children's Moods And Behaviors: Broad Application Of Bipolar Diagnosis May Do More Harm Than Good Troubled children diagnosed with bipolar disorder may fare better with a different diagnosis, according to researchers at The Hastings Center. The researchers support an emerging approach, which gives many of those children a new diagnosis called Severe Mood Dysregulation (SMD) or Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria (TDD)...
Psychiatry Symposium To Address Collaborations In Mood Disorder Research, Treatments The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will hold its 24th Annual Mood Disorders Research and Education Symposium on April 20, focusing on joint efforts between researchers and clinicians to study and treat depression and bipolar disease. Speakers on these topics from Hopkins and elsewhere will give talks from 12:45 p.m. to 6 p.m...
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