Depression Central
Ivan Goldberg, MD oversees this site. Contains medication information, information on mood disorders and much, much more.

 

Mood Garden Online Support Forum
Mood Garden is an online support forum/chat for people with mood and anxiety disorders.

 

NARSAD Research
For Affective Disorders (Depression and Bipolar Disorder) and Schizophrenia -- Cutting edge information See Mental Health Infosource.

 

Infinite Mind Series on Public Radio
Public radio program on many topics relating to the mind. Hosted by Fred Goodwin, MD. This long running series, from December 1997 to October 2008, is now out of production. You can listen to recordings of many past programs from the web site. Look for the "Listen Now" button. You may have to install or update RealPlayer to listen.

 

NY Mood Disorders Support Group
Has a roster of excellent speakers. Also, has a very good list of links.

 

Mental Health Infosource/Ronald Pies, MD
Topics on depression, anxiety, bipolar. Many new features. Under Interactive is "Ask the expert". Dr. Pies is a clinical professor at Tufts. He is a popular Psychiatric Times Columnist. Dr. Pies gives excellent, thoughtful and intelligent answers. See "archived" on Ask the Expert page which sets up a search.

 

Harish Malhotra, MD
Information on many topics such as descriptions of people with depression or mania, medications, etc.

 

Bipolar Genes
About Bipolar Disorder * Collaborative Research * Interview with Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD of Johns Hopkins. She has bipolar disorder. * Includes a half hour video hosted by Tony Dow of "Leave it to Beaver"

 

The Columbia Bipolar Genetic Study
Studying generations of families with Bipolar Illness to find genes that cause this disorder in order to improve diagnosis, treatment, early intervention and prevention. Need at least 2 living members who have had manic episodes.

 

Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation
Launched to coincide with publication of Dmitri Papolos's landmark book: "The Bipolar child: The Definitive and Reasurring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder". This site is a "virtual community center" with "Ask the expert", a drug database, etc.

 

Mayo Clinic
Accurate, well-written. On Depression and mood disorder as well as many other subjects. Use search box. It will tell you which letter in the alphabet to use. Ex. Bipolar is (b).