1. Medicating Adolescent Bipolar Disorder
It happens at the drop of a hat with no provocation, and as Hagop Akiskal, MD, psychiatry professor and director of the International Mood Center at San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center, also a specialist on bipolar disorder in children, says, the rage, "is sudden and explosive.... A depressed child may cling to their parents, refuse to go to school and pretend to be sick (NIMH). ... Ronald Brown, who is a professor of pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, says, "While we don't know exactly why the incidence of psychopathology is increasing in child...
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