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Toward an understanding of bipolar disorder and its origin.

The role of genetic influences in bipolar disease is supported by family studies
and high concordance rates among monozygotic twins. Substance abuse, common in
bipolar disorder, interferes with diagnosis and can worsen the course of the
disease.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12720474
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The Emotional Revolution: Transform Your Life Using the New Science of Feeling
by Norman E. Rosenthal

Affective neuroscience and its impact on psychology, psychiatry, and everyday
life.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806524472/top100
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Brain Imaging Studies in Mood and Anxiety Disorders
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12724172

Toward an understanding of bipolar disorder and its origin.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12720474

Anxiety disorders in 318 bipolar patients
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12716276

Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727683

Neuroimaging Studies of Amygdala Function in Anxiety Disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12724173

Gender differences in bipolar disorder.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727691

Deficits in Hippocampal Structure in Women With Childhood Sexual Abuse and PTSD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727697

Psychological mechanisms in acute response to trauma.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12725970

Amygdaloid Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Subjective Fear
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12724169

Developmental antecedents of anxiety sensitivity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727121

Cognitive behavior therapy for depression? Choose horses for courses.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727682

Toward early pharmacological posttraumatic stress intervention.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12725976

Early predictors of PTSD.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12725971

Further investigation of the obsessive-compulsive inventory
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727124

Similarities between emotional numbing in PTSD and alexithymia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12727127

Dissociative symptoms in PTSD
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?form=6&db=m&uid=12725010
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Mood disorders resources, http://www.eegspectrum.com/depression/
More news, http://start.eegspectrum.com/alert.htm

Neurofeedback Training Courses for Professionals
Chicago May 15-18; L.A. Jun 5-8; NC Jul 17-20
http://www.eegspectrum.com/Training/

Neurofeedback Yellow Pages
http://www.skiltopo.com/nfyp/

Mind/Brain Books
http://solo17.abac.com/whatsnew/books/psych/

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