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Pre-pubertal paediatric bipolar disorder: a controversy from America.
Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists - 1 Apr 2008
Parry Peter, Allison Stephen
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper was to explore the rapid rise in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder (BD) in the paediatric, particularly pre-pubertal, age group, in the USA over the past decade and to look at associated controversies. CONCLUSIONS: There has been a very marked rise in the diagnosis of BD among pre-pubertal children, and to a lesser extent adolescents, in the USA since the mid 1990s. The rise...
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