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In the early nineteen-seventies, investment capital installed genomics and biotechnology, thus displacing prostaglandins as paradigms for medical research and treatment, along with neglect of the prostaglandin inhibiting- properties of lithium and antidepressants. This intrusion ruined any hope of clinical progress, and infl icted a deep human and economic wound on society. In the mid-seventies, Julian Lieb, M.D began to compile a list of medical disorders that respond to lithium or antidepressants, and comprise the core of this book. With the worldwide meltdown of health care, readers will...

Many recognized geniuses had creative capacities that were driven by bouts of manic intensity followed by the depths of mind-numbing despair. From Plato, who originated the idea of inspired mania, to Beethoven, Dickens, Newton, Van Gogh, and today's popular creative artists and scientists who've battled manic depression, this intriguing work examines creativity and madness in mystery, myth, and history. Demonstrating how manic depression often becomes the essential difference between talent and genius, Hershman and Lieb offer valuable insights into the many obstacles and problems this illness...