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About Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder
It is suspected that a significant number of children diagnosed in the United States with attention-deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADHD) have early-onset bipolar disorder instead of, or along with, ADHD.
http://www.bpkids.org/site/PageServer?pagename=fd_factsheet |
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About Juvenile-Onset Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder manifests itself differently in children than in adults, and in children there is an overlap of symptoms with other childhood psychiatric disorder. As a result, these children may be given any number of psychiatric labels: "ADHD," "Depressed," "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder," or "Separation Anxiety Disorder." Too often they are treated with stimulants or antidepressants--medications which can actually worsen the bipolar condition.
http://www.bpchildresearch.org/juv_bipolar/index.html |
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About Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic-depression) is a serious but treatable medical illness. It is a disorder of the brain marked by extreme changes in mood, energy, thinking and behavior.
http://www.bpkids.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lrn_about |
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Alternative Approaches to the Treatment of Manic-Depression
A wide variety of vitamins, minerals and amino acids are related to the maintenance of a normal mood; deficiencies of any of these can present problems. Advocates of nutritional approaches to the treatment of mood disorders give several reasons why supplementation may be appropriate.
http://www.pendulum.org/articles/articles_misc_lisaalt.html |
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Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition in which periods of mania alternate with periods of depression. Mild cases of bipolar disorder can often go undiagnosed, with symptoms being mistaken for normal mood swings.
http://www.nutritional-healing.com.au/content/condition.php?category=neuro&condition=Bipolar+Disorder |
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Bipolar Disorder - Nutritional Supplements: Amino Acids
In considering specific amino acids as supplements for those with Bipolar Disorder, two in particular may be of some help.
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/menu_nutrition/a/9907_aminoacid.htm |
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Bipolar Disorder Center - resources
This center has been created especially for parents of a child with a bipolar disorder and for adolescents with bipolar disorders.
http://www.patientcenters.com/bipolar/news/resources.html |
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Bipolar Disorder Treated With Nutritional Supplement
Researchers in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary have found that a nutritional supplement has significant benefits for people with a psychiatric condition known as bipolar disorder.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/events/unicomm/NewsReleases/bipolar.htm |
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Bipolar and Co-Occurring Conditions
Perhaps the greatest source of diagnostic confusion in childhood bipolar disorder is that its symptoms overlap with many of the symptoms of attention-deficit disorder with hyperactivity. At first glance, any child who can’t sit still, who is fidgety, impulsive, easily distracted or emotionally labile is more likely to receive a diagnosis of ADHD than bipolar disorder. However, since over 80 percent of children with a bipolar disorder will meet full criteria for attention-deficit disorder with hyperactivity, ADHD should be diagnosed only after bipolar disorder is ruled out. While these two conditions seem highly co-morbid, stimulants unopposed by a mood stabilizer can have an adverse effect on the bipolar condition. 65 percent of the children in our study had hypomanic, manic and aggressive reactions to stimulant medications.
http://www.come-over.to/FAS/bipolar.htm |
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Bipolar kids - Reference Room - Index
Links to LOTS or resources and articles on bipolar
http://www.bpkids.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lrn_index_28 |
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Causes and Natural Treatments for Bipolar Disorder
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/altbipolar.htm |
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Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder: An Update from the National Institute of Mental Health
In addition, using stimulant medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or ADHD-like symptoms in a child with bipolar disorder may worsen manic symptoms. While it can be hard to determine which young patients will become manic, there is a greater likelihood among children and adolescents who have a family history of bipolar disorder.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/bipolarupdate.cfm |
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Differentiating ADHD from Bi-polar Disorder in Children
http://childspirit.com/bdvsadd.pdf |
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Evaluating Supplements, Herbs and Vitamins
Whenever a vitamin or supplement is powerful enough to heal, it also has the power to harm if misused.
http://www.patientcenters.com/bipolar/news/supplements.html |
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FACT SHEET - BIPOLAR DISORDER IN CHILDREN
Another key to differentiating bipolar illness from ADHD is the child’s response to medications. Children with ADHD do not respond to a mood stabilizer, but for children with true bipolar disorder, mood stabilizers are usually wonder drugs. Conversely, a stimulant, which helps patients with ADHD, pushes a bipolar child into increased symptoms of mania.
http://www.narsad.org/dc/pdf/facts.childhoodbpd.pdf |
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Guidebook for Preventing Migraine Headaches, Depression, Insomnia, and Bipolar Syndrome
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/migraine.htm |
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Info & Articles on Bipolar Disorder
Several studies have reported that over 80 percent of children who have early-onset bipolar disorder will meet full criteria for ADHD. It is possible that the disorders are co-morbid--appearing together--or that ADHD-like symptoms are a part of the bipolar picture. Also, the ADHD symptoms may simply appear first on the continuum of a developing disorder.
http://www.bipolarchild.com/articles.html |
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Ketogenic diet may have mood-stabilizing properties
There are several reasons to suspect that the ketogenic diet may also have utility as a mood stabilizer in bipolar illness.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11918434&dopt=Abstract |
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Nutritional Supplements For Treating "Bipolar Disorder," "ADD," and other Mental Health Conditions
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/nutsupplement.htm |
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Omega 3 Fatty Acids in Bipolar Disorder
Conclusion: 3 Fatty acids were well tolerated and improved the short-term course of illness in this preliminary tudy of patients with bipolar disorder.
http://www.jerrycott.com/user/Stoll.Omega3.pdf |
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Parent Version of the Young Mania Rating Scale
The P-YMRS consists of eleven questions that parents are asked about their child's present state. The original rating scale (Young Mania Rating Scale), was developed to assess severity of symptoms in adults hospitalized for mania. It has been revised in an effort to help clinicians such as pediatricians determine when children should be referred for further evaluation by a mental health professional (such as a child psychiatrist), and also to help assess whether a child's symptoms are responding to treatment. The scale is NOT intended to diagnose bipolar disorder in children (that requires a thorough evaluation by an experienced mental health professional, preferably a board-certified child psychiatrist). This version has been tested in a pediatric research clinic with a high number of children with bipolar disorder.
http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/bipolar/p-ymrs.asp |
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Recognition and Treatment of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Often, Pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) is not recognized until late adolescence, with patients reporting long histories of related psychopathology misdiagnosed as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)7 or a “behavior disorder” (oppositional defiant disorder [ODD] or conduct disorder [CD]).Therefore, the first and most important step in treating these children is to accurately recognize the disorder. This article updates practitionersabout empirical findings relevant to the recognition and treatment of PBD and translates these findings into “real-life practice.”
http://www.bpkids.org/site/DocServer/p01.pdf?docID=188 |
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Safe Harbor Articles on Bipolar
Safe Harbor claims to be the the world's largest site on non-drug approaches for mental health.
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/default.htm#B |
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St. John's Wort and BP - Unsafe
For mild depression, St. John's wort can be an effective treatment. However, there are factors which indicate that this herb should not be used by persons who have bipolar disorder.
http://bipolar.about.com/cs/menu_nutrition/a/0011_stjohns.htm |
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Stimulant drugs and familial predisposition to bi-polar
Some info on how stimulant drugs can cause bi-polar or bring out latent mental conditions. Or state that the kids were bipolar all along and just misdx'ed as ADHD.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ADHD_DrugFree/message/1968 |
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Symptom Charting
People familiar with bipolar disorder are probably also familiar with the term “mood chart”. It is understood in most bipolar communities that charting mood and other factors leads to a better understanding of one’s particular brand of bipolar disorder and what affects their illness. But other disorders can benefit from symptom charting. ADHD parents are very familiar with sticker charts, behavior charts and point systems which have been shown helpful in reducing unwanted ADHD symptoms and the behaviors that result. Charting frequency of impulsivity, distractibility, lack of attention, energy level and depression can aid parents of ADHD children in making discipline and other parenting decisions. Tracking obsessions and the behaviors that result can help those with OCD become more cognitively aware of the frequency and severity of their symptoms. Charting social difficulties (and successes, too) of children with autism and NVLD can aid parents and teachers in developing strategies to teach the child more appropriate communication skills. In fact, there is probably no chronic brain condition that could not benefit from daily monitoring or charting.
http://www.gcbf.org/information/article3.html |
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The Role of Amino Acids in Bipolar Disorder and Mental Health
In discussing remedies for manic depression, the amino acids tryptohphan, L-taurine and GABA should be recommended right off the bat.
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/aminobipolar.htm |
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Three Most Common Causes of Bipolar Disorder
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/commoncauses.htm |
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Vitamin Cure - Can common nutrients curb violent tendencies and dispel clinical depression?
DISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 05 | May 2005 | Biology & Medicine --- The latest incarnation of the supplement contains 36 vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants. Most are the same ingredients found in a typical multivitamin but at much higher doses.
http://moodfoods.com/supplements/vitamin.html |
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Wholistic Treatment For Bipolar Disorder
Well, come to find out, many studies are being conducted on holistic approaches to bipolar treatment and they are being funded by organizations like The Stanley Organization, National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health. Some important organizations are taking notice that maybe there is something to this “natural” approach.
http://www.bipolarworld.net/Archive/Terry/2002/terry30.htm |
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