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 ...

Understanding the ?Changes in DSM-5 The latest revision of the diagnostic manual does away with the complex multiaxial organization in favor of a simpler chapter order of disorders. The fifth edition ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2 -- Not all children with bipolar disorder may be getting properly identified because they fall just short of meeting diagnostic criteria for the disorder–criteria that is based on ...

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 ...

The American Psychiatric Association has released the proposed draft diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The draft criteria ...

Each month, Clinical Advisor makes one new clinical feature available ahead of print. Don’t forget to take the poll. The results will be published in the next month’s issue. The fifth edition of the ...