I wanted to be done with Biederman, but something was stuck in my mind. One of the Biederman articles about treating disruptive, low intelligence kids with Risperdal [Risperidone for the treatment of affective symptoms in children with disruptive behavior disorder: a post hoc analysis of data from a 6-week, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, parallel-arm study] didn’t […]
We’ve already discussed the J&J Center for Pediatric Psychopathology Research at Mass General [harvard for sale…] that started in 2002, and noted the dramatic increase in publication by Biederman’s group at Harvard. But the interest wasn’t just in Boston, the notion of the Bipolar Child caught the interest of the whole international psychiatric community. Beyond […]
It started simply enough – an investigation into the familial relationship between Affective Disorders and Attention Deficit Disorder – a perfectly reasonable thing to study: Evidence of familial association between attention deficit disorder and major affective disorders by Biederman J, Faraone SV, Keenan K, and Tsuang MT Archives of General Psychiatry. 1991 48(7):633-42. With the […]
[Hat Tip to Stephany!] I reviewed the COBY Studies as a preface to looking at Joseph Biederman’s papers. I wanted to solidify some idea about childhood bipolar disorder in my own mind before looking at his work. In the process of beginning to go through the articles, my email went ping! and I found this […]
The DSM-III [1980] fractionated what had been called Manic Depressive Illness into two disorders – Major Depression, Recurrent and Bipolar Disorder[s] – based on the presence of a Manic Episode. It had a category – Atypical Bipolar Dsorder – for cases that did not meet their full criteria for Mania. In the DSM-IIIR [1988], they […]