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Bipolar
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Kadima Collaborates
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Program To Host
Community Forum
Community forum to bring
more understanding.
KAT BERGMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
F
or people with bipolar dis-
order, the world can alter-
nate between being a dark,
depressed place, and one of infinite
possibilities and manic energy. The
roller coaster of moods seems to
cascade out of control, unless indi-
viduals get help from trained mental
health specialists and find a medica-
tion that works for them. Even with
help available, far too many people
with bipolar disorder end their own
lives.
People who have bipolar disorder
experience “highs” (periods of mania)
and “lows” (periods of depression).
Researchers such as Melvin McInnis,
M.D., director of the Heinz C.
Prechter Bipolar Research Program
at the University of Michigan
Depression Center, want to under-
stand why bipolar disorder happens,
how to treat it more effectively,
and how to help patients and their
families get the most out of modern
knowledge about the condition once
known as manic depression.
“There are many routes to this
disease and many routes through it,”
McInnis says. “We have found there
are many biological mechanisms that
drive the disease and many interac-
tive external influences on it. All of
these elements combine to affect the
disease as patients experience it.”
The Prechter program’s research
suggests that bipolar disorder has
many causes. Everyone’s experience
with bipolar disorder is unique. But
all these experiences include features
that fall into the following
majority of my days were full
seven classes of observable
of hopelessness and dread. I
characteristics:
don’t ever remember being
• Disease: Changes in
happy. The prospect of doing
how certain chemicals func-
my homework or of going to
tion in the brain may affect
a birthday completely over-
bipolar disorder.
whelmed me. I remember
• Neurocognitive:
obsessing about what it would
Changes in thinking, reason- Dr. Melvin McInnis be like to cease to exist and to
ing and emotion processing.
do so in a way that wouldn’t
• Temperament and per-
hurt anyone else,” says Mitzi
sonality: People with bipolar disor-
B., one of the program’s dedicated
der are frequently more reactive and
research participants.
“temperamental” compared to the
“Since my diagnosis I have been
average person.
on a mood stabilizer and an anti-
• Motivated behaviors: People
psychotic. My meds are an important
with bipolar disorder frequently
part of my treatment because they
experience substance use disorders
raise the bottom of the pool for me,
and other behavioral patterns.
to keep me from drowning. Then I
• Life story: Trauma and abuse in
use my coping skills to really thrive.”
childhood, unfortunate life experi-
The Prechter program’s research
ences and other challenges contribute focuses on personalizing treatment
to bipolar disorder in complex ways.
of bipolar disorder to prevent recur-
• Sleep and circadian patterns:
rences and to enable those living with
Patterns of sleep and circadian
bipolar to lead healthy and produc-
rhythms are often different among
tive lives.
bipolar patients, causing disruptions
“Bipolar disorder has a lot to teach
in daily patterns and routines.
humankind about other illnesses
• Outcomes and course of illness: because it covers the breadths of
Measures of how someone’s symp-
human mood, emotion and behavior
toms change over time and respond
like no other condition,” McInnis
to treatment.
says. “What we can learn in bipolar
about all these factors will be directly
applicable to monitoring other com-
NEW HOPE
We do not know exactly what causes
plex diseases and personalizing the
bipolar disorder. Research through
approach to managing them.” •
the Prechter program is creating new
Kat Bergman is marketing and communications
hope for those who suffer from this
manager at the Prechter Bipolar Research
devastating illness.
“For as long as I can remember, the Program at U-M in Ann Arbor.
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The Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar
Research Program, in col-
laboration with Southfield-
based Kadima, will host
“Bright Nights Community
Forum: Understanding
Bipolar Disorder” from 7-9
p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield.
Melvin McInnis, M.D.,
research director for the
Prechter program, will present
and join a panel of experts to
answer audience questions.
Panelists are Sue O’Shea,
Ph.D., and David Marshall,
Ph.D., from the Prechter
program; Jean Nemenzik,
LMSW, clinical director for
Kadima; Mike Buatti from NAMI
(National Alliance on Mental
Illness) Michigan & NAMI
Metro; and Nicole Lawson,
clinical administrator, Oakland
Community Health Network.
Kadima provides
comprehensive residential,
therapeutic and social services
to all people with mental health
needs. Additionally, several
organizations focusing on
mental health services will
have information tables at this
event.
This event is free and
open to the public, but pre-
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