Post by katiekat on Sept 17, 2007 13:02:58 GMT -5
Bipolar Diagnosis Increasingly Common in Youth
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The number of visits to a doctor's office that resulted in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents has increased by 40 times over the last decade, reported researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Over the same time period, the number of visits by adults resulting in a bipolar disorder diagnosis almost doubled.
The cause of these increases is unclear. Many experts theorize that the jump reflects that doctors are more expansively applying the diagnosis to children, and don't believe that the incidence of the disorder has increased. "From a developmental point of view, we simply don’t know how accurately we can diagnose bipolar disorder or whether those diagnosed at age 5 or 6 or 7 will grow up to be adults with the illness." John March, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine, told the New York Times. “The label may or may not reflect reality.” The study was published in the September 2007 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Read the entire article at:
www.pendulum.org/bpnews/archive/001916.html
filed under Bipolar Diagnosis and Early Treatment
The number of visits to a doctor's office that resulted in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents has increased by 40 times over the last decade, reported researchers funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Over the same time period, the number of visits by adults resulting in a bipolar disorder diagnosis almost doubled.
The cause of these increases is unclear. Many experts theorize that the jump reflects that doctors are more expansively applying the diagnosis to children, and don't believe that the incidence of the disorder has increased. "From a developmental point of view, we simply don’t know how accurately we can diagnose bipolar disorder or whether those diagnosed at age 5 or 6 or 7 will grow up to be adults with the illness." John March, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine, told the New York Times. “The label may or may not reflect reality.” The study was published in the September 2007 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Read the entire article at:
www.pendulum.org/bpnews/archive/001916.html
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