Are Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder the Same in Kids?
Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, manic depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood clinically referred to as mania or, if milder, hypomania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time. These episodes are usually separated by periods of “normal” mood, but in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling. Extreme manic episodes can sometimes lead to psychotic symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations. The disorder has been subdivided into bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia, and other types, based on the nature and severity of mood episodes experienced; the range is often described as the bipolar spectrum. Data fr
Are Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder the Same in Kids? Wednesday July 15, 2009 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)Ask three different doctors or researchers this question and you are likely to get three different answers. This is one of a number of Challenges in Diagnosing Childrens Bipolar Disorder. However, the picture continues to gain clarity and focus with each new research study. The Course and Outcome of Bipolar Illness in Youth (COBY) is a large research study supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH ). Research for this study has been conducted in a number of locations by different research teams. And the results continue to be supported and explored in greater detail. One of the tentative findings in COBY is that children get irritable not manic. The latest report on this is that Irritability Should B
