Bipolar Disorders

Study results from State University of New York update understanding of behavior disorder in adolescents

Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, August 20th, 2007

A new study, "Increased rates of bipolar disorder diagnoses among U.S. child, adolescent, and adult inpatients, 1996-2004," is now available. According to a study from the United States, "Volatile, aggressive behavior is the chief complaint that brings children to inpatient psychiatric care. These difficulties are increasingly conceptualized as bipolar disorder (BD)."

"The impact of doing so on clinical diagnoses in clinical care is uncertain. We extracted records from the annual National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) for which a psychiatric diagnosis was primary and examined trends in the rates of hospitalization for BD. Population-adjusted rates of hospital...

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Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2007-08-20)

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