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Amber Light Therapy for Bipolar Disorder

What bipolar patients, as well as their doctors, may not know is the amount of current research centered on light-dark therapy and the potential implications of this research on treating bipolar.

Pediatric Bipolar Disorder (PBD): A Skeptical, Mainstream, Non-US Perspective

Although practicing in Australia, I have followed the PBD phenomenon in the USA for several years. PBD had become the most common diagnosis in pre-pubertal children in US psychiatric inpatient units by 2004.

How We Got Here: The Psychodynamics of Juvenile Bipolar Disorder and the Clinician

The studies have been done and the consensus is in. Juvenile bipolar disorder (JBD) has probably been overdiagnosed recently, and the DSM-5 will describe a narrower phenotype to qualify for the diagnosis. At this point, it is worth thinking about how we got here, and what it means for clinicians as a cautionary tale for the future.