Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive, is a chronic mental illness, which is believed to affect as many as 1.6% of the general American population. There is much that we do not know about this difficult psychiatric condition. For years, scientists have been researching whether a person’s genes could play a contributing factor in the development of bipolar disorder.…
Dr. Frank Shelp, (pictured below) Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Development stepped down last month after three years overseeing a department overhaul. The new commissioner is Frank Berry, former CEO of View Point Health in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Shelp oversaw the overhaul of Central State Hospital in Milledgeville as well as the closing of other state mental…
