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bipolar disorder in children  

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  • More than 50 years ago, the discovery of lithium treatment for bipolar disorder (BP) in adults ushered in a productive period of diagnostic studies validated by longitudinal, family, genetic, and neurobiological investigations (Goodwin & Jamison, 1990). By contrast, only in the past decade have similar investigations of child BP been under way, amid great contention about the existence of prepubertal mania, its differentiation from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and differences between prepubertal and adult-onset BP (Craney & Geller, 2003; Geller et al., 2003; National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH] Research Roundtable on Prepubertal Bipolar Disorder, 2001). [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Bipolar Disorder in Children]

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