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Significant number of young people with undiagnosed bipolar disorder

Around 10% of UK primary care patients prescribed antidepressants for depression or anxiety have undiagnosed bipolar disorder, a study has found. Researchers from Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and …

Study on biology of schizophrenia may help treatment | The …

NEW YORK — Scientists pursuing the biological roots of schizophrenia have zeroed in on a potential factor — a normal brain process that gets kicked into overdrive. The finding could someday lead to ways to treat the …

Proposed law about abortion restrictions, not disability rights …

Although Sater found at least one parent of a child with Down's Syndrome to testify the law would be a positive change, observers of this testimony should not be fooled into thinking its champions are heroic disability rights …

Social anxiety is highly heritable but is affected by environment

Genes play a crucial role over time although environmental factors matter most in the short term, according to a major study into social anxiety and avoidant personality disorders from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Race a factor in repeated victimizations of people with mental illness …

African Americans who are mentally ill are at greater risk of being repeatedly victimized than are mentally ill white people, according to criminologists at Georgia State University. The researchers found the rate of recurring …