Pediatric bipolar disorder: Emerging diagnostic and treatment approaches

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-108

  Kowatch, Robert A ^a   DelBello, Melissa P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMINOPHYLLINE; AMPHETAMINE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOZAPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE; LITHIUM CITRATE; METHYLPHENIDATE; MOOD STABILIZER; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; OLANZAPINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TOPIRAMATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID; ZIPRASIDONE;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ACNE; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANGER; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; BIPOLAR MANIA; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CYCLOTHYMIA; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISTRACTIBILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; ECG ABNORMALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUPHORIA; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HALLUCINATION; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPOMANIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IRRITABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MENTAL INSTABILITY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIXED MANIA AND DEPRESSION; NAUSEA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; POLYDIPSIA; POLYURIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; QT PROLONGATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCREENING TEST; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SERUM SICKNESS; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SLEEP; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION; THOUGHT DISORDER; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DRUG THERAPY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 28444434458     PISSN: 10564993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2005.08.013     Document Type: Review

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