Ellen Frank, Ph.D., a distinguished psychologist and member of the DSM 5 workgroup on bipolar disorders, recently lamented that the DSM IV criteria for bipolar disorder mixed type were too stringent.
SAN DIEGO -- Certain children may be misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and a diagnostic category introduced in DSM-5 may capture these children better, researchers reported here. In a retrospective ...
Bipolar disorder (BP) is characterized by profound pathological mood swings from mania to depression, interspersed with periods of subsyndromal symptoms (that is, symptoms that are insufficient to ...