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Diagnosis and classification of pediatric bipolar disorder.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Jan 2008
Staton Dennis, Volness Linda Jo, Beatty William W
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BACKGROUND: Many children and adolescents with apparent bipolar disorder cannot be meaningfully diagnosed using the DSM-IV. The variety of pediatric bipolar phenotypes observed in clinical practice remains unclarified. METHOD: 130 consecutively evaluated bipolar children and adolescents were assessed using semistructured clinical interviews and operational criteria that abandoned adherence to the DSM-IV cardinal...
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