Topics: Bipolar Disorder | Child Psychiatry

We’ve all noticed the trend: children are increasingly being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This issue is controversial, because psychiatrists are already accused of overmedicating children.

Topics: Bipolar Disorder

The STEP-BD study, an NIMH-funded study of bipolar disorder, has enrolled its last patient, and we have already begun to see the first results filtering through to the psychiatric journals.

Topics: Antidepressants

The latest foray into the controversial issue of antidepressant-induced switching appeared in the February issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry (2006;163:232-239). The last time TCPR took up this topic (June 2005), we reviewed a meta-analysis of antidepressant use in bipolar disorder. That paper concluded that SSRIs cause the same rate of manic switching as placebo (Am J Psychiatry 2004;161:1537-1547). The authors of the newly published research would beg to differ.

Topics: Bipolar Disorder

How common is bipolar II disorder, and are we frequently missing the diagnosis?

What’s in a Name? An awful lot, if you believe the work of Matthew Stanbrook and colleagues.

Topics: Bipolar Disorder

Dr. Sachs, as the principal investigator of the STEP-BD study, can you walk us through how the study was hatched?