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By Demitri Papolos and Janice Papolos, 3rd ed, 496 pp, $27.95.
New York, NY, Broadway Books, 2006.
ISBN-13 978-0-7679-2297-5.

JAMA. 2007;298:96-97.

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As all medical students learn on their pediatrics rotations, children and adolescents are not "little adults." However, all too often the world of psychiatry addresses childhood disorders based on concepts generalized from adult psychiatric diagnoses and treatments. This has been especially true in the case of bipolar disorder. Until about 10 years ago, bipolar disorder was believed rare in children, not commonly occurring until late adolescence and early adulthood.

The first edition of The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder (2002) was at the forefront of an explosion of professional and public interest in pediatric bipolar disorder, beginning at the close of the 20th century and continuing to this day.^1-2 This book was instrumental in conveying the possibility to thousands of parents that their child might have bipolar disorder—many made their way to our clinic, literally clutching a copy of the book. Thus, it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Kiki D. Chang, MD, Reviewer; Deval Shah, MD, Reviewer
Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
kchang88@stanford.edu

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