Bipolar Disorder In Children Appears Likely To Continue Into Young Adulthood
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 21:35
in Health & Medicine
About 44 percent of individuals who had bipolar disorder as children continue to have manic episodes as young adults, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. This rate, along with the severity of the disease at young ages, strongly suggest that bipolar disorder can be continuous from childhood to adulthood, the authors note.