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Final Diagnostic Assessment Book	Pediatricians, nurse practitioners, and therapists are often the first clinicians parents turn to for treatment of children with early symptoms of bipolar disorder. JBRF has developed a diagnostic assessment program to assist these gatekeepers of mental health services detecting the condition and starting children on the road to successful treatment. These screening instruments are described here.	06/30/2006	PDF ,
The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation Research Agenda - Goals and Objectives	This document describes all current JBRF projects in terms of goals and objectives. The reader may find particular projects of interest and worthy of support.	06/29/2006	Word Doc ,
The Challenge	This document describes the diagnostic challenge facing clinicians evaluating children and adolescents for bipolar disorder and the challenge of developing assessment tools in the absence of agreed upon diagnostic criteria. The development of the Child Bipolar Questionnaire and the Jeannie and Jeffrey Illustrated Interview for Children is described.	06/29/2006	Word Doc ,
Behavioral Dimensions of a Core Phenotype of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder	This is a poster that was presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in April, 2005. The poster describes an investigation of prominent symptom dimensions in a large sample of children whose parents completed the Child Bipolar Questionnaire on the JBRF website.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
The Child Bipolar Questionnaire and Four Proposed Phenotypes for Juvenile-onset Bipolar Disorder	This is a poster that was presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in April, 2005. It describes several definitions of juvenile-onset bipolar disorder that have been proposed to improve on DSM-IV adult-oriented diagnostic criteria. It reports on the number of children in the JBRF database who met each of the alternative definitions.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
The Core Phenotype: Identification of a Behavioral Marker Comprised of Aggressive Obsessions, Anxiet	This is a poster presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in April, 2005. It reports on research findings indicating that children with bipolar disorder experience intense and recurrent fears about harm befalling themselves and others. Those that have the highest level of fear of harm were found to be the most behaviorally aggressive.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
Internet-based Program for the Identification, Assessment and Ascertainment of Affected Sibling Pair	This is a poster presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in April, 2004. It describes the JBRF web-based data acquisition program. The program now supports a database of over 5000 children. Parents all over the country have contributed data on every aspect of their bipolar children's symptoms and experiences.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
Expert Diagnostic Workshop on Juvenile-onset Bipolar Disorder	This is a poster that was presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in April, 2004. It describes a web-based program developed by Dr. Demitri Papolos to provide international experts in juvenile-onset bipolar disorder with a forum for discussing and diagnosing cases using several alternate criteria. Dr. Papolos hopes that the Workshop will help to build a much-needed consensus of opinion on the definition of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
Parent Reported Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior Obtained via an Internet Data Acquisition System	This is a poster presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in April, 2004. It documents the rates of obsessions and compulsions reported by parents of bipolar children on the JBRF web-based data acquisition program.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
Assessment of Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior in Childhood-onset Bipolar Disorder Using the Yale-Brown	This is a poster presented at a Depression Consortium in Pittsburgh in 2003.	06/21/2006	PDF ,
The Child Bipolar Questionnaire: A Dimensional Approach to Assessing Pediatric Bipolar Disorder	This is a research report recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. It describes the Child Bipolar Questionnaire (CBQ), a rapid method for the early detection of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The report documents the findings of excellent reliability and validity of the CBQ in predicting a bipolar diagnosis made by a diagnostic interview that is more time-consuming and expensive to administer.	06/14/2006	PDF ,
Reading List - Scholarly Articles	This is a list of scholarly articles that address various research problems in juvenile-onset bipolar disorder.	06/14/2006	Word Doc ,
Educating and Nurturing the Bipolar Child - DVD	This document describes a DVD available to parents and educators on solutions to some of the obstacles involved in the education and development of children with bipolar disorder. The DVD is a recording of a live presentation by Janice Papolos, co-author of The Bipolar Child, who is able to combine empathy with practical guidelines in a manner that many have found enormously helpful.	06/14/2006	Word Doc ,
Development of New Criteria for Juvenile Bipolar Disroder	In 2001, an NIMH panel of experts agreed that the adult-oriented DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder are inadequate for describing the condition in childhood. This document describes each of the diagnostic criteria sets that have been proposed as alternates to DSM-IV. New criteria for juvenile-onset bipolar disorder are being considered for DSM-V.	06/14/2006	Word Doc ,
Description of Programs and Services	This document describes the programs and services offered by JBRF since it's inception in 2001.	06/14/2006	Word Doc ,
Clinical Phenomenology of Childhood-onset Bipolar Disorder	In 2005, JBRF conducted a factor analytic study of the data collected on nearly 3000 children who had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder (70%) or some symptoms of the condition. This document describes the results of the analysis.	06/14/2006	Word Doc ,
Projects Completed or Ongoing in the Last 3 Years	The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation has sponsored several studies in the last three years. Some of these have been in collaboration with academic institutions and clinics. This document describes each project, its principal investigators, and its goals.	06/12/2006	Word Doc ,
The CBQ and Core Diagnostic Criteria		06/12/2006	Word Doc ,
Endophenotypes of a Core Phenotype of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder	The scope of the research sponsored by JBRF has resulted in findings from several different areas that suggest a set of clinical, neuropsychological, and neuroanatomical dimensions of a Core phenotype of juvenile bipolar disroder. This poster, presented at the NIMH Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Conference in Chicago in 2006, describes this work and the exciting new ideas suggested by the research findings.	06/07/2006	PDF ,
Obsessive Fears about Harm to Self or Others and Overt Aggressive Behaviors in Youth Diagnosed with	Research sponsored by JBRF has resulted in five articles submitted for publication this past year. Three have been published and two are in press. This is a paper describing the strong relationship found between the frequent and intense fears about harm coming to self and others experienced by bipolar children and overt aggressive acts, such as violence to self or others. The significance of the finding is in its usefulness as a way to differentiate bipolar disorder from other disorders such as depression and ADHD.	06/07/2006	PDF ,
Factors Associated with Parent-reported Suicide Threats by Children and Adolescents with Community-d	This paper, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders in 2005, describes the relationship specific symptoms reported on the Child Bipolar Questionnaire (CBQ) and suicide threats made by children with bipolar disorder. The CBQ items most closely correlated with parent-reported suicide threat were: hallucinations, cursing/foul language, low energy/withdrawal, imagery--gore/violence, destroys property, poor self-esteem, excessive risk-taking, and excessive anxiety/worry. The significance of this finding is that aggression and impulsivity are importantly related to suicidal threats in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. This may have implications for treatment with antidepressant medication when the diagnosis of bipolar disorder may be present.	06/07/2006	PDF ,

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