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Number of Bipolar Kids Skyrockets

Statistics heighten concerns that disorder is overdiagnosed

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 4, 2007 11:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – The number of American children being treated for bipolar disorder soared 40-fold between 1994 and 2003, and has probably risen significantly since then, the New York Times reports. The revelation in this month's Archives of General Psychiatry has stunned psychiatrists and heightened concerns that the...   Read full story »

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