Related mental health conditions Bipolar disorder can be tricky to diagnose because it shares symptoms with other common mental health conditions. Additionally, children with bipolar disorder may have ...

Does your child display excessive emotional changes? Outbursts of anger, excitability, anxiety or rage, followed by periods of depression and despondency? These mood swings can be the first ...

ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, or Both? Linda Jo Volness, MS, RN, is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist who is board certified in child, adolescent, and adult mental illness. At Quality of Life in Fargo ...

A new study confirms that children of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder have a higher risk of developing psychopathology compared to children whose parents do not have these conditions.

SAN FRANCISCO — Emerging research supports bipolar disorder as a valid diagnosis in children, according to a speaker at the American Psychiatric Association. Janet R. Wozniak, MD, director of the ...

When Jessica Kennedy was five years old, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Her mother told FRONTLINE in the 2008 documentary The Medicated Child that she couldn’t go a day without taking ...

Bipolar disorder exists on a spectrum rather than as a single, uniform condition. This fundamental characteristic explains why two people with the same diagnosis can experience dramatically different ...