My 18-year-old daughter has been repeatedly hospitalized. There is a definitive family history of bipolar disorder on the paternal side. She has OCD behaviors and much of her conversational speech is off-topic and inappropriate. The medical team is unable to stabilize her. She was recently found to have schizoaffective disorder. Will she ever be functional?
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall is known as much for his headline-grabbing troubles off the field as he is for his standout play on it.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Brandon Marshall was stabbed in the abdomen Friday evening. Authorities charged his wife.
I was wondering if my brother, who we have been told is bipolar, could develop schizophrenia? My uncle, my mom's brother, was schizophrenic and unfortunately fell victim to the mental illness. We are aware that there have been some mental health issues with males on my mother's side of the family, so could it be possible that he could be schizophrenic as well as bipolar?
Can a 9- or 10-year-old get a true diagnosis of bipolar disorder?
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I have a family history of mental illness. Three of my siblings have schizoaffective disorder (one recently told by a doctor that it may be bipolar with hallucinatory symptoms). I have dealt with mild to moderate depression for over 10 years with a few episodes of major depression in that time. About three months ago, I began taking Lexapro even though I have always wondered whether doing so might aggravate an underlying genetic illness. I feel much better on this medication, and do not have a history of mania or hallucinations. (I am a 31-year-old female, and take 10mg of Lexapro a day).
The Pima County Sheriff's Office bureau chief talks to CNN's John King about the Arizona shootings.
The father of Arizona massacre suspect Jared Lee Loughner had a front-yard argument with his son the morning of the killings and had told a neighbor the 22-year-old was "out of control," according to neighbors and investigators.
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As recently as 10 years ago, doctors advised women with bipolar disorder not to have children. While that thinking is now dated, bipolar women often face tough decisions about how to handle their medication during pregnancy.
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Teenage marijuana smokers are at higher risk for developing psychoses -- such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions -- compared with those who don't smoke marijuana, a new study says.
People with Asperger's syndrome would be included in the same diagnostic group as people with autism and pervasive developmental disorders, according to new guidelines under consideration by the American Psychiatric Association.
Are the psychoses of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia very similar? How do you tell psychotic bipolar disorder apart from schizophrenia with mood disorder? How similar are the two diseases considering that the same medicines (anti-psychotics) are beneficial to both?
Are the psychoses of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia very similar? How do you tell psychotic bipolar disorder apart from schizophrenia with mood disorder? How similar are the two diseases considering that the same medicines (anti-psychotics) are beneficial to both?
Schizophrenia drugs, increasingly prescribed to children with bipolar disorder and other conditions, can cause youngsters to experience rapid weight gain, according to a new study.
I am a 50-year-old male and have been experiencing a voice talking to me. I lost most of my central vision about 11 years ago from a virus and am legally blind. I was diagnosed with depression two years ago by my doctor and he put me on 20 mg of paroxetine a day. I have always been an antisocial person but even more so after losing most of my vision. For the last several months there has been a voice talking to me. It just carries on normal conversations and warns me of various things, remarks about the news, people, daily activities (don't eat that, eat this instead), stay away from this or that person because they are out to harm you, your neighbors are watching you, etc. What is happening to me? Can you give me some suggestions on how to make the voice stop? I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you can give me. Thank You
Can traumatic brain injury cause a person to develop a mental health problem or trigger an underlying problem not yet discovered, which then causes the person to create a fantasy world while in a coma, which, when they awake they are adamant is real?
A University of Georgia professor shot and killed his wife and two other adults in Athens, Georgia, in late April, according to police. A U.S. soldier fired on fellow troops in early May at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad, Iraq, killing five comrades, according to authorities.
Please help. My son has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, when he starts feeling better he won't take his medicine, which is risperidone, and it is very difficult for us to get him to take it when he is not feeling well. He is a bright young man who has lost his job many times because of this illness. Are there any new findings for this illness? Can you explain what part of the brain is affected?
The intrusive voices popped into William "Bill" Garrett's head. "They're coming for you," the voices told the 18-year-old. "Find somewhere to hide; they're going to get you."
Jamie Foxx suffered through his own psychological turmoil while plunging into the role of a mentally ill musician in "The Soloist," the actor said.
Susan Craig's brother Roger died of a pulmonary embolism in 2007, at age 38. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in high school, he had been on antipsychotic drugs for years. At the time of his death, he was carrying 280 pounds on his 6-foot-4-inch frame.
My 9-year-old daughter with a diagnosis of childhood absence epilepsy (currently treated with Depakote) has had two separate episodes, six months apart, where she heard voices telling her to hurt herself and run away. Each episode lasted two weeks. Would the only possible causes for hallucinations be depression/bipolar, or can you list some other possibilities?
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A new study suggests that a mother's acute emotional stress during early pregnancy may increase her unborn baby's risk of developing schizophrenia later in life
Johnson & Johnson reported robust quarterly earnings on Tuesday, lifted by strong overseas sales that benefited from the weak U.S. dollar.
Merck's $702 million deal with Swiss biotech Addex, announced today, to co-develop a schizophrenia drug may not be a huge deal in the multibillion-dollar world of Big Pharma. But it offers further evidence that the U.S. drug giant is securing its future by essentially outsourcing its research and development to smaller, nimbler firms.
A Texas mother convicted of capital murder in the drowning deaths of her five children will have the rest of her life to mull over her crime: a jury on Friday decided to spare her from the death penalty and sentence her to life in prison.
Shortly after Andrea Yates was arrested for methodically drowning her five children in the bathtub, she told an investigator that she was a bad mother who had doomed her young to eternal damnation, and the only way she knew to save them was to kill them.
Andrea Yates' psychotic mind was like her own private battlefield in the war between good and evil, according to a defense expert who testified Thursday that Yates believed killing her five children would be a final defeating blow to Satan.
Court TV talked with Dr. Joseph Deltito, professor of psychiatry from New York Medical College, who discussed the Andrea Yates case February 28, 2002, in an online chat.
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Former detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement accuse the agency in a lawsuit of forcibly injecting them with psychotropic drugs while trying to shuttle them out of the country during their deportation.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and a subsidiary have agreed to pay more than $515 million to settle federal and state investigations into their drug marketing and pricing practices, U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan announced Friday.
Wyeth shares slipped in premarket electronic trading Friday, a day after a U.S. District Court refused to issue an injunction to stop a generic version of its heartburn drug Protonix from going on sale.
The defense for former astronaut Lisa Nowak has filed notice that it may claim she was temporarily insane when she accosted a romantic rival and shot pepper spray at her, court documents say.
Noted academic Elyn Saks hid her illness for years. Now in a new book she opens up about what it's like to have a severe mental illness
The FDA shot down an experimental schizophrenia drug from the drugmakers Wyeth and Solvay Pharmaceuticals.
The FDA will decide soon whether Wyeth's experimental drug for schizophrenia merits approval for the U.S. market.
The nation's prisons and jails are filled with people who don't belong there, but police from Memphis to Miami are stepping in to set them free
This week, Congress will return to the immigration debate when it hears testimony from U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.
Drug giant Eli Lilly has engaged in a decade-long effort to play down the health risks of its top-selling medication, the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
A jury on Wednesday found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity of drowning her five children in a bathtub five years ago.
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Shortly after Andrea Yates methodically drowned her five children in the bathtub, she told an investigator that she did it because she was such a bad mother she had doomed her young to eternal damnation.
The following is a partial statement read Wednesday by court spokesman Edward Adams regarding 23 mitigating factors considered by jurors in the sentencing trial of admitted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui:
Jurors were divided Wednesday on the 23 mitigating factors presented by the defense team in the sentencing trial of admitted al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, according to court documents.
Would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid denies a central part of al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui's testimony -- that the pair were to hijack a passenger jet together and fly it into the White House.
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The expert who literally helped write the book on diagnosing mental illness testified Wednesday that 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui is schizophrenic.
The monster-sized market for anti-psychotic drugs is expected to keep growing for years, though at a slower pace.
Confessed Al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui sits alone at his own table in the courtroom, convinced that his lawyers are trying to trick federal marshals into killing him.
A clinical psychologist who has studied Zacarias Moussaoui for the past four years told jurors at his sentencing trial Monday that the al Qaeda plotter is mentally ill.
Johnson & Johnson says it remains under scrutiny from federal and state authorities over the drug manufacturer's sales of its top-selling drug Risperdal, according to a news report.
Defense attorneys said Tuesday they are prepared to present witnesses who will say Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the U.S. convicted in connection with the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, may be schizophrenic.
A pair of landmark studies -- one on breast cancer and the other on schizophrenia -- jumped off the pages of the major medical journals. The first study's results were decisive; the second's much cloudier.
New, widely prescribed antipsychotic drugs are 10 times more expensive but no more effective than an older, discontinued drug, a news report said Tuesday.
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Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty when they retry a man who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to a string of sniper-style shootings in the greater Columbus area.
An Ohio jury could not reach a verdict over the weekend in the trial of Charles McCoy Jr., whose lawyers said his mental illness prevented him from understanding right and wrong in 12 shootings that terrorized the greater Columbus area.
Jurors deliberating the fate of Ohio highway shootings defendant Charles McCoy Jr. appeared to seriously consider the defendant's sanity during their second day of deliberations in his capital murder trial.
Prosecutors had the last word on the mental health of admitted sniper Charles McCoy Jr. Tuesday when they called an expert witness who said McCoy was in his right mind when he went on a four-month shooting spree, killing one person.
Admitted sniper Charles McCoy Jr. suffered from paranoid delusions that could only be quelled by shooting at cars and dumping bags of cement onto freeways, a forensic psychiatrist told jurors in his capital murder trial Monday.
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In her second turn on the witness stand, the mother of admitted highway sniper Charles McCoy dabbed away tears as she apologized to her sons' victims for a shooting spree that killed one person and terrorized motorists in Central Ohio for four months.
Prosecutors trying Charles Allen McCoy Jr. for capital murder in a string of sniper shootings rested their case Tuesday by matching forensic evidence from the crime scenes to a 9 mm Beretta belonging to the defendant.
The best friend of a woman hit by a sniper's bullet in 2003 described for jurors Friday how she helplessly watched the victim succumb to her wound.
Stocks slumped Friday, capping the worst week for the market in just over two years, on worries about a slowdown in the economy and how it could dent corporate profits.
The chain of events leading up to the evening Gordon Jacobs fatally shot his wife began months before the shooting itself, his lawyer told 12 jurors in a West Palm Beach, Florida, courtroom Wednesday.
A mentally ill Arkansas man whose lawyers had argued the state couldn't legally execute him was put to death Tuesday night, while another death row inmate in the state won a last-minute stay of execution.
The voices inside Charles Singleton's head varied, in volume and number, regardless of whether he had taken medication for his schizophrenia. Inside his Arkansas cell, he said he could often hear voices that speak of killing him.
The voices inside Charles Singleton's head vary, in volume and number, regardless of whether he has taken medication for his schizophrenia. Inside his Arkansas cell, he says he can often hear voices that speak of killing him.
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