Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, is a medical illness that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, and functioning. These changes may be subtle or dramatic and typically vary greatly over the course of a person’s life as well as among individua
Published: Mon July 06, 2009
Research findings, clinical experience, and family accounts provide substantial evidence that bipolar disorder, also called manic depression, can occur in children and adolescents. Bipolar disorder is difficult to recognize and diagnose in youth, howe
Published: Thu July 09, 2009