Ellen Frank, Ph.D., a distinguished psychologist and member of the DSM 5 workgroup on bipolar disorders, recently lamented that the DSM IV criteria for bipolar disorder mixed type were too stringent.

SAN DIEGO -- Certain children may be misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and a diagnostic category introduced in DSM-5 may capture these children better, researchers reported here. In a retrospective ...

The increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in pre-pubertal children has been recognized as a major misunderstanding of the diagnosis of bipolar disorder that the National Institute of Mental ...

The most recent revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has arrived, and the latest changes have caused divisions among those in the psychiatric community. Often ...

Bipolar disorders include several disorders of emotion, energy and thought that are characterized by biphasic mood episodes of mania or hypomania and depression and are expressed as recurrent episodes ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Field testing of proposed new diagnostic criteria for many mental disorders showed that, for the most part, they were at least adequately reliable, according to initial reviews ...

The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM, updated roughly every 15 years, has detailed descriptions of all the mental disorders officially recognized by ...

Understanding the ?Changes in DSM-5 The latest revision of the diagnostic manual does away with the complex multiaxial organization in favor of a simpler chapter order of disorders. The fifth edition ...