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Carol Shields
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February 15, 2006

The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation Is Invited to Participate in CIBC World Markets Children's Miracle Day

What a Difference A Day Makes

Maplewood, NJ/February 15, 2006-- Each year, on the first Wednesday in December, CIBC World Markets and CIBC Wood Gundy Investment Advisors, sales and trading staff across Canada and around the world, donate their fees and commissions to children's charities. Children's charities are vetted and invited to participate. The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation was made an awardee this December.

Since it started in 1984, the CIBC World Markets Children's Miracle Day has raised more than C$147 million for children's charities. "The success of Miracle Day is based on the participation and generosity of our clients, employees and Canadian charities. Registered charities that are well administered, with a record of achievement or potential for success in line with our overall goals," said a spokesman for the company.

Jeanne Langer, president of JBRF said: "We are so pleased that CIBC World Markets and CIBC Wood Gundy Investment Advisors found JBRF's mission important to children. With their help, we can continue getting to the root causes of this illness and ensure a better future for the children and their families."

ABOUT JBRF AND EARLY-ONSET BIPOLAR DISORDER

The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation is the first charitable foundation of its kind solely dedicated to research on childhood-onset bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) affects close to 1 million children and adolescents in the United States at any given time. Abrupt swings of mood and energy that occur multiple times within a day, intense outbursts of temper, poor frustration tolerance, and oppositional defiant behaviors are commonplace in juvenile-onset bipolar disorder. These children veer from irritable, easily annoyed, angry mood states to silly, goofy, giddy elation, and then just as easily descend into low energy periods of intense boredom, depression and social withdrawal, fraught with self-recriminations and suicidal thoughts. Recent studies have found that from the time of initial manifestation of symptoms, it takes an average of ten years before a diagnosis is made.

Visit the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation at http://www.jbrf.org.

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