Bipolar Children
Two researchers at Brown University have been given a federal grant to study brain development in infants and bipolar disorder in children. According to a press release from Brown University, one researcher will use MRI technology he developed with colleagues to track brain development in infants ages two months to five years of age. And another scientists will use brain-imaging, behavorial tasks, and genetic analyses to identify biological markers of bipolar disorder in children.
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From Our Experts
FDA Approves Risperdal for the Treatment of Schizophrenia and Bipolar...
The approval by the FDA for the use of Risperdal in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children is a momentous event.... Read more »
Bipolar Disorder and Children: Part I of II
Are Children Negatively Affected by a Parent with Bipolar Disorder? Recently a reader asked about possible risks to children being raised... Read more »
Children and Bipolar Disorder: Part II of II
Readers have commented on and asked follow-up questions about my July 3, 2006 entry on Children and Bipolar Disorder. Some expressed... Read more »
Children and Bipolar Disorder
Question: I am personally concerned with the number of pre-teen to early teen children being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, with... Read more »
What is the Likelihood that My Children Will Develop Bipolar Disorder?
Q: I have a couple of family members who were never diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but who definitely exhibited symptoms of the... Read more »
From Our Sources
Irritability may signal bipolar disorder in children
Doctors should consider irritability a possible symptoms of bipolar disorder when they are diagnosing the condition in children, new research... Read more »
Bipolar Diagnosis Soaring Among Children, Study Finds
Over the past decade, the number of children ages two to five years old who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and prescribed antipsychotic... Read more »
Children of Bipolar Parents at Risk for Mental Health Problems...
Researchers have found that children whose parents have bipolar disorder have eight times the risk of developing attention-deficit hyperactivity... Read more »
Too many children diagnosed as bipolar: expert
According to an analysis of a National Center for Health Statistics survey, the number of office visits for children diagnosed with bipolar disorder... Read more »
Bipolar cases in U.S. children, teens soaring
The number of American children and teens treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold between 1994 and 2003, experts say, and this statistic is... Read more »
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