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The Otsuka Patient Education Network (OPEN) is a collection of online resources dedicated to providing firsthand perspectives and insights from those living with certain diseases and disorders.

Every individual's health experience can be different. On this website, participants have shared their personal experiences. Individual experiences may vary.

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Kidney Disease
Caring for Someone with PKD: Our Family’s Healthy Lifestyle

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Caring for Someone with PKD: Our Family’s Healthy Lifestyle

How a PKD family can be supportive by example.

Bipolar Disorder
Mental Health and Whole Wellness

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Mental Health and Whole Wellness

Feeling healthy - both mentally and physically - is a different journey for everyone.
Depression
what is depression

Length: 2:33

What is Depression?

Depression isn’t just about feeling down – it’s a very real illness that affects the brain.

Alzheimer’s Disease
Navigating My Husband's Alzheimer's Disease

Length: 5:49

Navigating My Husband's Alzheimer's Disease

Mary Catherine was comforted by her husband's Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, because it explained his changing behavior. Now, as the disease progresses, she supports him with patience, compassion, and management of their day-to-day responsibilities, looking only as far into the future as needed.

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Mental Health

How music can help people struggling with mental health issues

For poet Theo LeGro, no other passion has played as significant a role in her mental health journey as music.

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Mental Health

T-Mobile becomes first carrier to enable 988 number for mental health services

T-Mobile has added support for the 988 emergency mental health services number more than a year and a half ahead of the Federal Communications Commission’s deadline, the company announced on Friday. T-Mobile customers who dial 988 will be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) and its network of crisis centers across the US. T-Mobile says it is the first carrier in the US to make 988 available to its customers.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Connecting Financial Literacy to Cognitive Health and Alzheimer's

Having trouble managing your finances, research has shown, can be an early sign of cognitive difficulty and even dementia. But two fascinating recent studies suggest how important it can be to your mental health and your wallet to keep up your financial literacy and your confidence about it as you get older.

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Alzheimer’s Disease

For neural research, wireless chip shines light on the brain

Researchers have developed a chip that is powered wirelessly and can be surgically implanted to read neural signals and stimulate the brain with both light and electrical current. The technology has been demonstrated successfully in rats and is designed for use as a research tool.

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Kidney Disease

A Cubs fan in need of a kidney found help from an unlikely source... a White Sox fan

A crosstown rivalry doesn’t mean much when another person’s health is on the line. One Chicago Cubs fan in need of a kidney found that out when a Chicago White Sox fan stepped up in a big way.

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Kidney Disease

Researchers develop a unique method of identifying early signs of acute kidney injury

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have identified a unique method of identifying the early signs of a potentially serious condition known as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).

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OPEN is sponsored by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. The information provided by the OPEN website is intended for educational benefit only, and does not represent scientific fact or medical advice. Speak with a health care professional about your or your loved one's symptoms and illnesses to determine diagnosis and appropriate treatment options.

Every individual's health experience can be different. On this website, participants have shared their personal experiences. Individual experiences may vary.

Participants on the OPEN website may have received reimbursement from Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, inc. for their participation.

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