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Risk Factors
October 17, 2016

Smoking Ban in New Jersey Jails Drastically Reduced Deaths of Inmates with Mental Illness

Policy changes by the New Jersey Department of Corrections drastically reduced the availability of tobacco products in New Jersey jails between 2005 and 2014. Prison commissaries reduced their stock of tobacco, prices incr...
Treatments
December 21, 2015

Benefits of a Healthy Lifestyle

In a talk at the 2015 meeting of the International Society for Bipolar Disorder, researcher Michael Berk suggested that a healthy lifestyle may improve mood disorder symptoms. -- Diet is important. A study of more than 20,...
Risk Factors
January 3, 2011

Smoking Multiplies Risks for Bipolar Patients

Smoking is associated with a less successful outcome in the naturalistic treatment of bipolar patients, reported Seetal Dodd and colleagues at the 4th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders ...
Risk Factors
April 29, 2010

More Medical Comorbidities Among Bipolar Population

Goldstein and colleagues interpreted data from the National Epidemiological Survey in 2001-2002 that included 41,682 representative adults in the U.S. population sampled compared with 1,411 found in the community with a di...