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THE UPS AND DOWNS OF BIPOLAR DISORDER

Bipolar disorder is a recurrent instability of mood which, because of its cyclical nature, poses diagnostic difficulties. Researchers in Australia may be on track towards a better tool for identifying people with the illness (popularly known as manic depression).

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THE ODDS A WOMAN IS UNHAPPY

The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne once likened happiness to a butterfly fluttering just beyond grasp. According to medical and economic research, there is a significant gender imbalance in the experience of that helpless blue feeling.

HEALTH & ILLNESS–

PATTERNS OF OCD

For a condition affecting patterns of behavior, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) can have a wide range of expression. One man washed his hands endlessly, avoided using the phone during certain hours, and couldn’t control his desire to check door locks and stove burners. Another man hoarded more than a hundred dogs in his house. International soccer phenomenon David Beckham has admitted he obsessively counts the number of cola cans in his fridge.

HEALTH & ILLNESS–

SOCIAL PHOBIA: CELEBRITIES GET STAGE FRIGHT, TOO

What do Major League Baseball players Khalil Greene of the St. Louis Cardinals and Dontrelle Willis of the Detroit Tigers have in common with singer-actors Barbra Streisand and Donny Osmond?

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