See also:

• Health: Child Health: Information and Advice: Mental Health  (8)
• Health: Mental Health: Disorders: Child and Adolescent  (375)
• Health: Teen Health  (61)
• Kids and Teens: Health: Conditions and Diseases: Bipolar Disorder  (13)

Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation -  .

- Thorough coverage of illness, including education and legal issues. Provides message boards, chat room.

Angels From The Heavens - - For parents of children with illness and/or ADHD. Includes personal accounts and writings.

Bipolar Affective Disorder in Children and Adolescents - - Discusses causes, symptoms, medications, and side effects. Provides brief patient histories.

Bipolar Children and Teens - - Parents share personal accounts, links.

Bipolar Disorder in Children - - Looks at difference between this illness and ADHD in children.

Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents - - Solicits volunteers for research studies currently being conducted by NIMH.

Bipolar Kids - - Fact sheet about this illness in children touches upon ADHD.

Bipolar Parents List - - Provides sign-up for email discussion group, newsletter.

Facts About Childhood-Onset Bipolar Disorder - - Fact sheet details symptoms, treatment, prognosis. (NAMI.

Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation - - Nonprofit dedicated to research into etiology of this illness.

Parenting Bipolar Children - - Links cover various aspects of illness, message board.

Seeking the Key to the Best Medication for Every Bipolar Child - - An article by Russell Scheffer, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, who is studying the effects of medications on bipolar children.

Bipolar Disorder Can Affect Young Children, May Co-Exist With ADHD - - Article summarizes recent findings. (April 28, 2000)

Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents - - Article reviews obstacles, needed improvements. (May 1, 1996)