Paediatric Bipolar Disorder and Its Controversy.
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DOI: 10.1017/neu.2022.28
Abstract: OBJECTIVES Paediatric bipolar disorder - bipolar disorder occurring in prepubertal children - is a diagnosis subject to considerable controversy. Whilst historically considered to be very rare, proponents since the 1990s have argued that mania can… read more here.
Keywords: diagnosis; bipolar disorder; controversy; evidence ... See more keywords
2 A history of the ‘paediatric bipolar disorder’ epidemic: driving forces, iatrogenic consequences and lessons for psychiatric nosology
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2019-pod.16
Abstract: Background ‘Paediatric bipolar disorder’ (PBD) is a controversial diagnosis that began in the mid-1990s when several US child psychiatric researchers hypothesised that atypical mania commonly occurred among prepubertal children in the form of chronic irritability… read more here.
Keywords: nosology; pbd; psychiatric nosology; bipolar disorder ... See more keywords