Playing the Role of Patient and Helping the Diagnosis

Playing the role of patient and helping the diagnosis
Since then she has learned to take on the persona of different patients, many with conditions such as depression, anorexia and bipolar disorder in exams designed to test the diagnostic skills and bedside-manner of medical students. Other actors are … Read more on Irish Independent

Cradle to grave: Brain scanning
In research that was funded by the US National Institutes of Health, Rebecca Knickmeyer of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and colleagues John Gilmore, Jiaping Wang, Hongtu Zhu, Xiujuan Geng, Sandra Woolson, Robert Hamer, Thomas … Read more on spectroscopyNOW.com

Natural Bipolar Treatment – www.youtube.com encognitive.com Successful Treatment of Bipolar Disorder With a Nutritional Supplement: Ten Cases Recent research on various nutrients has suggested that some mental illness might be ameliorated by supplementation. Much work has focused on essential fatty acids (1), although various minerals are also being studied (especially zinc). We are evaluating a broad-based nutritional supplement that contains primarily trace minerals, plus vitamins and amino acids. Recent work has suggested that crops grown with western farming methods contain fewer of these essential nutrients than they did in years past (2) . Although we have been examining the effects of the supplement on a variety of psychiatric symptoms in both children and adults, it appears to be particularly promising for bipolar disorder in adults. We will present an open case series of 10 male patients aged 20-46 years who thus far have taken the supplement for 1.5 – 6 months. Four were diagnosed with Bipolar I, four with Bipolar II, one with Bipolar Mixed, and one with Bipolar-NOS. In most cases, the supplement has entirely replaced psychoactive medications and the patients have remained well. Side effects (eg, nausea) have been rare, minor, and transitory. In all cases, the patients have been evaluated periodically with the Hamilton-Depression Scale, the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, and the Young Mania Rating Scale. The change in mean scores for each scale from study entry to the time of the last …