The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation is the first and only charitable organization dedicated to the support of research for the study of early-onset bipolar disorder. Demitri F. Papolos, M.D. is the director of research of JBRF, and Janice Papolos is a co-founder and serves on the Board of Directors.
In addition to the major areas of research described on the site and the patient recruitment that goes on there, several features will be of special interest to the parents of bipolar children, and to their clinicians:
The Child Bipolar Questionnaire is a reliable and sensitive diagnostic indicator for childhood-onset bipolar disorder that is used in current JBRF-sponsored studies. Take the Child Bipolar Questionnaire.
Jeannie and Jeffrey illustrated Interview for Children
Educational Forums
Have a question about your child's educational needs? Visitors can ask questions of experts and peers about any educational problem or solution.
In addition there is a 100,000-word monograph called The Educational Issues of Students With Bipolar Disorder. http://jbrf.org/edu_forums/issues.html
Listservs for Professionals http://jbrf.org/listserv/index.html
