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What is pediatric bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder can be considered a spectrum disorder, which means that different profiles of symptom severity and duration comprise variations of this disorder. Bipolar spectrum disorders can occur in children or adults; childhood onset is referred to as pediatric bipolar disorder. It is estimated that 1% to 3% of adolescents in the United States (3 to (More)

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Knowing When to Seek Treatment Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorders

The Body

Bipolar Affective Disorder Bipolar Disorder Bipolar Disorder: From the National Institutes of Health (More)

Symptoms and Tests

Appetite: Decreased Appetite: Increased Fatigue (More)

Treatment

Is My Diagnosis and Treatment Right? Therapeutic Boarding Schools (National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs) Bipolar Disorder: Disease Management (More)

Staying Healthy

My Family Health Portrait U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative Bipolar Disorder: Prevention/Screening

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