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 Manic Depression

More than three-million Americans are believed to be suffering from manic-depression, and many with the illness do not receive treatment because they don't know what's wrong with them or they've been misdiagnosed. In this hour: one of the foremost authorities on manic depressive illness talks of her own struggle with manic depression and the link between creativity and madness.

Guests:
Kay Redfield Jamison
Professor of Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Author, "An Unquiet Mind"
Baltimore, MD

David Cox
Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

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