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Bipolar Disorder

The Balanced Mind Foundation

The The Balanced Mind Foundation (formerly the Children and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation) has resources for families and youths living with bipolar disorder. A section of the site is targeted at educators teaching children with bipolar, and another at teens with the disorder.

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation’s site answers frequently asked questions about mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, and discusses research advances in treating and understanding these illnesses.

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance's easy-to-use Web site offers helpful information about mood disorders, support groups, the Association's programs and publications. The site also provides links and resources for further information.

Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation

The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation provides an introduction to bipolar disorder in children, with an overview, frequently asked questions, and suggested resources.

Medline Plus: Bipolar Disorder

This easy-to-use service of the National Library of Medicine provides links to articles, pamphlets, and organizations relating to bipolar disorder.

Mental Health America

Mental Health America provides information about many forms of mental illness, treatment options, medication resources, and ways to get help.

National Alliance on Mental Illness

The National Alliance on Mental Illness Web site houses resources on a host of mental illnesses, such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and borderline personality disorder. The site also provides information on treatments, support groups, and recovery from mental illness.

Dana Links

Diagnosing the DSM

Published Apr 26, 2011
by Steven E. Hyman
If all goes as planned, the American Psychiatric Association will release a new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013. But, argues Dr. Steven Hyman, the DSM is a poor mirror of clinical and biological realities; a fundamentally new approach to diagnostic classification is needed as researchers uncover novel ways to study and understand mental illness.

The Diagnostic Dilemma

Published Nov 10, 2010
by Daniel Dickstein, M.D.
Bipolar disorder diagnosis has been rising dramatically in children for the past decade.In coming years, argues Daniel Dickstein, M.D., recognizing and diagnosing bipolar disorder in children should be based more on biological markers, such as brain structure and the use of neural circuits, than on the inconsistent diagnostic categories laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Last Updated: 3/12/13

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