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Posted by Dr. Bob on March 23, 2000, at 10:38:16
Hi, everybody,
This coming Monday, March 27, at 11 am Chicago time, John Nurnberger, Jr., MD PhD, Joyce and Iver Small Professor of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, will present:
"Heritable Factors in Alcoholism"
If you have an Internet connection and a Macintosh (or another computer with a sound card and a speaker), you should be able to listen in. Other options are video and "real time" text-based discussion during the presentation with other online participants (including myself).
New! this year are:
* Electronic discussion by email, to which the presenter will be invited, following each Grand Rounds.
* An archive of each Grand Rounds -- since not everyone who would like to is able to attend them when they are given.
* A listing of online multimedia continuing education programs at other academic departments of psychiatry.
More information, including how to get the *free* RealPlayer software that you'd need to listen in (no special software is needed to receive video or to discuss), is at:
http://psychiatry.uchicago.edu/grounds
If any of you give this a try, please let me know how what you think. We need feedback from your end. Thanks!
Bob
Posted by grace ball on March 25, 2000, at 8:52:27
In reply to Grand Rounds Online: Inheritance and Alcoholism, posted by Dr. Bob on March 23, 2000, at 10:38:16
Dr.Bob,
I believe addictions such as alchholism can be inherited. I found out my grandmother must have been bipolar years after her death, she drank and took pills to soothe her pain until her death. My mother had the same symptoms and started drinking w/o the pills to soothe hers. When I started the same symptoms I went for proper treatment and was diagnosed. I could easily drink but I choose not too. I am so sorry my family thought this was the only way out of the pain, but then the medical field is changing to treat bipolar all the time. I guess what I would ask if is, is the bipolar inherited and the drinking learned behavior? is the drinking inherited too and do all bipolar people use this as a crutch to deal with the pain until they can find good medical treatment? What I do know is that I hated my grandmother actions and what she put us through as a family that I swore I could never do that to my family. When I started with the symptoms I ran fast so I would not have to live as she did. She has been gone for 25 years now. The treatment for bipolar or alcoholism was not as well known as it is now. If it was she may have lived a happier pain free life.
Thank You, Grace
Posted by Dr. Bob on March 25, 2000, at 15:01:06
In reply to Re: Grand Rounds Online: Inheritance and Alcoholism, posted by grace ball on March 25, 2000, at 8:52:27
> I guess what I would ask if is, is the bipolar inherited and the drinking learned behavior? is the drinking inherited too and do all bipolar people use this as a crutch to deal with the pain until they can find good medical treatment?
Good question. It could seem as if drinking were inherited, but it could just be a learned response to something else that was in fact inherited.
People with bipolar disorder have different ways of dealing with their pain. By no means do all of them drink.
> What I do know is that I hated my grandmother actions and what she put us through as a family that I swore I could never do that to my family. When I started with the symptoms I ran fast so I would not have to live as she did. She has been gone for 25 years now. The treatment for bipolar or alcoholism was not as well known as it is now. If it was she may have lived a happier pain free life.
I'm glad that more treatments are available now -- and that you've taken advantage of them and spared your family what you went though yourself. Best wishes,
Bob
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