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=PEDIATRIC BIPOLAR DISORDER=

[|Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dysphoria: Proposed Addition to DSM-V]

====Mood charting is an excellent tool for parents whose children have bipolar disorder. It provides a record to share with your child’s doctors and can help detect episodes early. In its simplest form, it is a daily record of a child’s emotional state. These charts may also include items such as medications, sleep schedules or difficulties in school. Some charts are for the child to complete.====

Ellen Leibenluft, M.D. is Senior Investigator and Chief of the Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in the Emotion and Development Branch, Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Here she discusses possible reasons for the dramatic increase in the rates of diagnosis in childhood bipolar disorder in the past decade. media type="youtube" key="3iL9e0h46oM" height="385" width="640"

Here she discusses brain regions associated with bipolar disorder, including the amygdala (which may be smaller) and prefrontal cortex (which may have different activity) media type="youtube" key="wq6RcZGkHeM" height="385" width="640" .