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Parental diagnoses in youth with narrow phenotype bipolar disorder or severe mood dysregulation.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Aug 2007
Brotman Melissa A, Kassem Layla, Reising Michelle M, Guyer Amanda E, Dickstein Daniel P, Rich Brendan A, Towbin Kenneth E, Pine Daniel S, McMahon Francis J, Leibenluft Ellen
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Controversy exists regarding whether nonepisodic irritability and hyperarousal (severe mood dysregulation) is a phenotype of pediatric bipolar disorder. The authors compared axis I diagnoses in parents of children with narrow phenotype bipolar disorder and parents of youth with severe mood dysregulation. METHOD: Parents of youth with narrow phenotype bipolar disorder (proband N=33, parent N=42) and...
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