Treating children for bipolar disorder

Child psychiatry, roiled last year by revelations that antidepressants could increase children's risk of suicidal behavior, now is embroiled in another controversy: How to treat troubled children who have explosive rages and dramatic mood swings that defy conventional diagnosis.

Doctors increasingly agree that some of these children have bipolar disorder. Once thought to be exceedingly rare among children, the problem is being diagnosed more frequently and at younger ages than ever before. A small but growing group of psychiatrists say they are treating children as young as four for bipolar disorder, prescribing mood-stabilizing drugs and antipsychotics that have rarely if ever been used on patients so young... http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05145/510109.stm

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