FIRST-EPISODE MANIA IN A 9-YEAR-OLD CHILD - A CASE REPORT.

Corresponding Author:
Dr. Aftab Ahmed Khan,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychiatry,
NSCB Medical College,
Jabalpur,
Madhya Pradesh.
E-mail: draftab79@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND

Paediatric Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a highly morbid paediatric psychiatric disease, consistently associated with family history of mood disorders and associated with high levels of morbidity and disability and with a greater risk of suicide. While there is a general consensus on the symptomatology of depression in childhood, the phenomenology of paediatric mania is still highly debated and the course and long-term outcomes of paediatric BD still need to be clarified.

Keywords

Bipolar disorder, Mania, children.