Manic-depressive illness
by Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison · first published 2007
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From the Publisher: The revolution in psychiatry that began in earnest in the 1960s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness. Hailed as the most outstanding book in the biomedical sciences when it was originally published in 1990, Manic-Depressive Illness was the first to survey this massive body of evidence comprehensively and to assess its meaning for both clinician and scientist. It also vividly portrayed the experience of manic-depressive illness from the perspective of patients, their doctors, and researchers. Encompassing an understanding ab
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…better sources than just the result of some Google search. The evidence gathered with citations to peer-reviewed literature in one of the definitive medical textbooks on the issue, http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... strongly suggests that lithium for bipolar mood disorders has long term benefit. (That's based both on the decades of human use of lithium in some countries and on the basis of animal…
on “Mental Illness and Startups” ↗…There is a huge prior literature on associations between high IQ and mood disorders, with much of that literature summarized in the authoritative textbook by Goodwin and Jamison. http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... As a parent of four high-IQ children myself, painfully aware of how toxic the United States school system can be for such children, http://learninfreedom.org/age_grading_bad.html I…
on “Relationships between Depression and High Intellectual Potential (2012)” ↗…disorders: Depression: Causes and Treatment, 2nd Edition http://www.amazon.com/Depression-Treatment-Aaron-T-Beck/dp/0... (a very recent book, by the inventor of cognitive therapy) or http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... (a very authoritative textbook with extensive references to primary research literature).
on “Why Antidepressants Don't Live Up to the Hype” ↗>>>I'd like to imagine that most artists are relatively well-adjusted. Keep imagining. But great ones aren't. Go read: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament by Kay Redfield Jamison http://www.amazon.com/Touched-With-Fire-ebook/dp/B001D1YCM2 The Outsider by Colin Wilson http://www.amazon.com/The-Outsider-Colin-Wilson/dp/087477206...…
on “You are not Steve Jobs” ↗There's a theory that creatives are much more sensitive (which is why they are so good at their work) and thus more vulnerable to crazy highs and lows. One book on the subject is, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.
on “What to Do When a Loved One Is Severely Depressed” ↗There is a long line of research on mood disorders and the ways to deal with those behaviorally and medically. http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... It has been known for quite a while that if a person is in a prolonged depressed mood state, simply shortening that person's periods of sleep (usually by getting the person up earlier,…
on “Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression” ↗…become much more healthy than they ever imagined possible even after years of untreated mood disorders, but it is often a whole-family effort that brings about the best results. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... [2] Combination psychotherapy and antidepressant medication treatment for depression: for whom, when, and how. Craighead WE1, Dunlop BW. Annu Rev Psychol. 2014;65:267-300. doi: 10.1146/annurev.psych.121208.131653.…
on “The Other Side of Depression” ↗…are comparable at all. Thanks for the other link about antidepressant drugs. The best considered view of the authors of the standard textbook on recurrent and bipolar depression http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... is that mood stabilizers (lithium, depakote, carbamazepine) are better first-line drugs for depression with cyclic course than the SSRI drugs mentioned in the link you shared, and that…
on “2009's Top Threats To Science In Medicine” ↗…mood disorders has been studied at book length. The most authoritative of the several books on that issue is by psychologist (and mood disorder patient) Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Fire-Manic-Depressive-Artistic... and co-author of the definitive text on manic-depressive illness http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec...…
on “Beautiful Minds: Relations between genius, creativeness and mental illness” ↗I have seen a different summary of (less recent) research in the second edition of the Goodwin and Jamison textbook, http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... confirming that sleep deprivation itself (without medication) can alleviate depression--but also precipitate mania in bipolar patients. Studies of brain wave patterns during sleep and…
on “Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy” ↗nicotine is a mood stabilizer in people with depression and bipolar disorder Citations, please? I have the best regarded textbook on bipolar disorder http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... at hand as I type this, and there is no recommendation of nicotine for any patient there. I'm quite sure that "mood stabilizer" is an incorrect characterization of the drug effect of…
on “The Scientific Scandal of Antismoking” ↗…treated with it as compared to controls. The references to this can be found in the standard medical textbook about mood disorders by Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison. http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec... So perhaps the findings generalize to the idea that preserving youthfulness ("plasticity," that is adaptability) of the brain helps people suffering from depressed mood develop new thought…
on “Fearless Youth: Prozac Extinguishes Anxiety by Rejuvenating the Brain” ↗A well-known psychiatrist with bipolar disorder, Kay Jamison, published a book titled "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament". In her own words: "The main purpose of this book is to make a literary, biographical, and scientific argument for a compelling association, not to say actual overlap, between…
on “An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker” ↗Yes, Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Fire-Manic-Depressive-Artistic... and co-author of the definitive text on manic-depressive illness http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec...…
on “Depression's Evolutionary Roots” ↗As noted in the previous HN thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=788259 that submitted this article, Kay Redfield Jamison, author of Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, http://www.amazon.com/Touched-Fire-Manic-Depressive-Artistic... and co-author of the definitive text on manic-depressive illness http://www.amazon.com/Manic-Depressive-Illness-Disorders-Rec...…
on “Depression is not a malfunction” ↗