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This is the last of a three-part series to inform you about the findings from research studies funded by the Juvenile Research Foundation. The first two Newsletters described the approach and development of a new perspective on pediatric bipolar disorder. This Newsletter tells you about the direction that researchers plan to follow now that the…
This is the second of a three-part series to inform you about research on juvenile bipolar disorder sponsored by the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation. We hope you will be encouraged by the progress and inspired to believe that the end of this journey is attainable. What do the following have in common? deflects blame suffers…
This is the first of a three-part series created to familiarize you with some exciting and hopeful information regarding research that has been conducted on juvenile bipolar disorder. In order to get to the end of any journey, you must travel in the correct direction. In terms of understanding juvenile bipolar disorder, the The Juvenile…
A few weeks ago, we listened to a radio broadcast produced by ABC Radio National in Australia whose topic was the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in young children. The segment begins with a send-up of the supposed American penchant for seeing psychiatric disorders everywhere. The listener hears a narrator intone: “You’ve heard about SARS, AIDS…
In our book, and in almost every newsletter we write, we talk constantly about the burdens that parents of children with bipolar disorder must shoulder and overcome, all the while attempting to make decisions with the clinicians who work in an area of medicine that is still in its infancy. But we’ve never composed a…
On October 22, The New York Times ran a front-page article about a 10-year-old girl named Haley, suffering with a probable bipolar disorder. Because Haley was extremely anxious and distractible, had obsessional thoughts and fears, exhibited rapid mood swings, was often aggressive, and was experiencing psychotic symptoms, her psychiatrist could not point to one, specific…
Each week, millions of viewers tune into the hit show, 24. They watch as federal agent Jack Bauer of the Counter Terrorist Unit battles threats to national security, barely escaping with his life. The season unfolds in real time: each show depicts one hour; each season, 24. Every so often, a split-screen panel updates the…
At a recent conference on pediatric bipolar disorder, the topic of the seasonal aspects of the illness came up and caused a flurry of nods from the parents in the audience. These parents were aware that, despite the extraordinarily rapid daily shifts in mood, their sons and daughters did indeed have a depressive slump that…
One of the questions we asked on the initial survey for The Bipolar Child, concerned a craving for carbohydrates: did the child or adolescent crave starchy foods such as potatoes, breads, pastas, and macaroni and cheese? or sugary foods such as candy, cookies, and ice cream? We’ll never forget the follow-up phone interview we had…
Does this sound familiar? Yesterday morning it took an hour-and-a-half attempting to get him up. We kept shaking him, beseeching, threatening, beseeching anxiously…. We even called his cell phone thinking he might pick it up for a friend’s call. He simply growled, muttered something we would have preferred not to hear, and turned over and…