Educational Videos

Mindful Meditation for Bipolar Disorder, Can it Help?

  Georgiana Lotfy is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, and teacher who has worked with children, individuals and couples, for over twenty years. For ten...

Helping People Living with Mental Illness Live Longer, Healthier Lives

Margarita Alegrรญa, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research (CMMHR) at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, and a...

Being a Woman of Resilience with Bipolar Disorder: Resiliency in Mind Body and Spirit

Cheryl's life perspective is to embrace resiliency while living with bipolar disorder, migraines and fibromyalgia. She and her husband Pete lost their vibrant and kind...

Pregnancy & Bipolar Disorder

Childbirth is one of the most powerful triggers we know for episodes of bipolar disorder. Women with bipolar disorder face very difficult decisions around starting...

Yoga and Mood Disorders

Dr. Abhishek Rai, MD., is a full time psychiatry resident at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, MI. After graduating from one of the mostprestigious...

The Challenges of Treating Bipolar Disorder during the College Years

Russ Federman, Ph.D., ABPP is in full-time private practice in Charlottesville, VA.  He's previously had a 23 year career in university mental health: Director of Mental...

Providing Reasonable Accommodations to Employees with Bipolar Disorder

Melanie joined the JAN staff as a consultant on the Cognitive / Neurological Team in February 2008. She has a fourteen year history of teaching...

Bipolar Disorder: Hope and Healing Through Art Therapy

Lisa Falls is an artist and is a Registered, Board Certified Art Therapist with the Art Therapy Credentials Board. She has worked in the field...

Overcoming Bipolar Disorder: How to Thrive, Not Just Survive

Barry Shainbaum is an icon of survival and success. Today, he is a renowned public speaker, broadcaster and celebrated photographer, acclaimed for documenting some of...

Circadian Clocks in Bipolar Disorder

 Dr McCarthy's research career is focused on translational neuroscience and genetics, with an emphasis on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and Bipolar Disorder (BD). He is...

Animals in Mental Health Recovery

Alicia Smith, while living with Bipolar II, PTSD, Agoraphobia and Major Depression, taught over 85,000 people in person and 12,000 virtually.  Now medically retired, Alicia focuses...

Mindfullness as a Clinical Intervention and a Path to Wellness

 Dr. Fulwiler received his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University.  He completed his residency...

Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World

A native Boston, born 60 years ago, Deva Lipson is a bipolar survivor who has become a missionary against the twisted existence the disease can...

Changing Coping, Changes Bipolar Disorder

Ross Szabo is an award winning speaker, author, consultant and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. He was Director of Outreach for the National Mental Health Awareness...

In the Mood for Love: The Overlap of Romantic Love and Mania

Dr. Haase is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and in private practice in psychiatry. She is a member of...

Bipolar Support for Families

Blake LeVine is a life coach dedicated to helping improve the mental health of those he works with. Blake is a survivor of bipolar disorder...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Kristen Dahlin, M.A. graduated with Honors (B.A.) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned a Master's degree in Psychology at the California School of...

A Tale of Two Families- Helping a Loved One with a Mental Illness

LLOYD I. SEDERER, M.D., is Medical Director of the New York State Office ?of Mental Health (OMH), the nation's largest state mental health system.  As New York's...

Electroconvulsive Therapy

Dr. Descartes Li is a Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. He is the co-Director of the UCSF Electroconvulsive Therapy Service as...

Do it Yourself Sanity: Strategies to Use at Home

You Need Help- A Step-by- Step Plan to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGYlnD37eic&t=550s[/embed] Dr. Komrad was an attending psychiatristย  on the Treatment Resistant Psychotic Disorders Unit at Sheppard Pratt Hospitalย  for 15 years, where he continues to...

Meditation, Medication & Magic

Kimberly Knox is a multidisciplinary inventor and of note, a patient with Bipolar I. Ms. Knox was educated around the world, completing her Bachelors degree in...

Behavioral Restraint and Seclusion

 Leslie Morrison is the Director of Disability Rights California's (DRC) Investigations Unit.  She directs investigations of allegations of abuse and/or neglect involving persons with disabilities,...

Suicide by Security Blanket and other Child Psychiatry Emergencies

A unique and unprecedented discussion of emergency psychiatric care for children in crisis.Offers unique perspectives on specific aspects of emergency child psychiatry, including child development,...

Balancing Benefits and Harms in Treating Bipolar Disorder

Dr. Ketter received his medical training in Canada at the University of Toronto.  He completed his internship and psychiatric residency at the University of California...

Youth Suicide Prevention Using the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program

Kelly Cavanaugh is the Youth and Program Coordinator for the San Diego Chapter of the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Programยฎ. Born and raised in San...

Advanced Nutrient Therapies for Bipolar Disorder

Author and scientist William J. Walsh, Ph.D., presents a science-based nutrient therapy system that can help millions of people diagnosed with mental disorders. Nutrient Power...

Optimizing Outcomes in Bipolar Disorder/ Measuring and Maximizing Quality of Life

Bipolar disorder is a common and often disabling mood disorder. Clinical outcome assessments (e.g., symptoms, relapse rates) have historically been the primary focus in bipolar...

Lithium: Still a Cornerstone in the Long-Term Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

  Willem Nolen has retired as Professor of Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen in February 2013. Before he moved to Groningen he worked in...

The Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Mood Disorders

   Philip Botkiss, M.D. completed his undergraduate work in biology (1981) at Rice University in Houston, Texas and earned his medical degree (1985) at University...

Creative People-Personality and Mental Health

       Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer, researcher and online publisher on creativity and personal growth. He is creator of the Talent Development Resources series of...

The Practice and Potential of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Dr. Steven Hickman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and has a joint appointment as an Associate Clinical Professor in the UCSD Departments of Psychiatry and...

Bipolar Disorder in School-What Every Parent Needs to Know

Dr. Rienzi Haytasingh is a practicing licensed educational psychologist who has devoted his entire professional career towards promoting the education of students with disabilities and...

Bipolar Disorder and Severe Irritability in Youth Same or Different

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in the Emotion and Development Branch, Intramural Research Program, National...

Making the Numbers Work for Us-Epidemiology and Assessment of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

Eric Youngstrom, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is also the Acting...

The Real Informant

The movie The Informant starring Matt Damon is based on the real-life story of Mark Whitacre, the 1990ย’s whistleblower in the infamous Archer Daniels Midland...

The Inpatient Experience-What You Need To Know

Ms. Nadler-Moodie is currently in full time, self-employed practice as a consultant to hospitals regarding psychiatric care, regulatory, quality and nursing issues.. In addition she...

Transforming Mental Health Through Leadership and Collaboration from Clinical Epidemiology to Clinical Trials

Dr. Tohen graduated as a doctor of medicine from the National University of Mexico and as a doctor of public health (epidemiology) from Harvard University....

Sandy Hook Aftermath Discussion: Muffy Walker interviews with UT TV

Treatment Horizons in Bipolar Disorder-Stem Cells and Pharmacology

Dr. Kelsoe graduated from medical school at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in 1981. He completed internship training at Washington University in St. Louis and...

A Perspective from the Consumer and Caregiver-Real Life Experiences

Karen McClurg Sheffres was born in Michigan and spent her childhood in Colorado. She attended Colorado State University where she obtained her Doctor of Veterinary...

Grieving Through Living Losses

Ken Druck, Ph.D., is one of the nationย’s pioneers in personal transformation, having broken fresh ground in male psychology, executive coaching, organizational consulting, parent effectiveness,...

Brain Imaging in Bipolar Disorder- A window into Mind and Mood

Dr. Eyler received her undergraduate degree from Duke University in 1991 and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. She...

Barriers to Care

 Dr. Suzanne Fiala is an award-winning board-certified family physician from Seattle Washington with an active medical practice, including a large population of patients who suffer...

Mental Health, Stigma and the need

Congressman Patrick kennedy served 16 years in the U.S. Houes of Representatives and is predominantly known as the author and lead sponsor of the Mental...

Living with Someone who has Bipolar; Living with Someone who has Normal

John McManamy is the author of "Living Well with Depression and Bipolar Disorder: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You That You Need to Know" (HarperCollins,...

Planning Ahead for a Child with Mental Illness

 Carol S. Battaglia has been in private practice as a solo practitioner for over 20 years. As part of her estate planning practice, she routinely...

How to Navigate Educational Services in a School Environment

Dr. Sara Frampton has experience in both psychology and education. She has a BA in Psychology from The George Washington University, a Masters in Education...

My Recovery- A Story of Hope and Inspiration

Maricela Estrada is the author of Bipolar Girl: My Psychotic Self.  Estrada received her Associates of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from Rio Hondo College...

Eight Strategies for Coping as an Individual and Family

 Dr. Miklowitz is Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute, and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow...
Translate ยป