A new look at nature of mood disorder

Child psychiatrists are debating what to do about a glaring 40-fold spike within a decade in the number of youngsters diagnosed with bipolar disorder. A panel of the American Psychiatric Association has concluded that many of these children may have been misdiagnosed, and that they are suffering instead from another mood disorder more likely to evolve into adult depression or anxiety. The panel ...

Rhode Island Hospital researcher: Broadening bipolar disorder criteria is a bad idea

( Lifespan ) A Rhode Island Hospital psychiatrist and researcher explains the negative impact of broadening the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder in the upcoming Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. In a newly published commentary in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Mark Zimmerman, M.D., explains that lowering the diagnostic threshold for bipolar ...