Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

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Subject review

Leibenluft E, Dickstein DP. (2008) Bipolar disorders in children and ado-
lescents. In: Rutter Met al.(eds)Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
5th edn. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 613–627.

Further reading

Baroni A.et al. (2009) Practitioner review: The assessment of bipolar disor-
der in children and adolescents,Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
50 , 203–215.
Lichtenstein P. (2009) Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia
and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: A population-based study,
Lancet 373 , 234–239.
MacCabe JHet al. (2010) Excellent school performance at age 16 and
risk of adult bipolar disorder: National cohort study.British Journal of
Psychiatry 196 , 109–115.
Stringaris Aet al. (2010) Youth meeting symptom and impairment criteria
for mania-like episodes lasting less than four days: An epidemiological
enquiry,Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 51 , 31–38. (Classical
bipolar is rare in 8–19-year-olds. By contrast, brief episodes of mania-
like symptoms are relatively common and impairing – but it is unclear if
these are related to classical mania, or just superficially similar.)
Zammit S. (2004) A longitudinal study of premorbid IQ score and risk of
developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression, and other
nonaffective psychoses.Archives of General Psychiatry 61 , 354–360.