Bipolar Disorder
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Meet the expert: Pediatric Bipolar Disorder with Professor Dr. Boris Birmaher
On 24 April 2026, ACAMH will host a webinar Navigating Diagnostic Challenges in Pediatric Bipolar Disorder. We caught up with the presenter – Dr. Boris Birmaher, Endowed Chair in Bipolar Disease and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine – about the topic itself, his career, and his hopes for the event.
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Professor Gabrielle Carlson
Gabrielle Carlson is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She is also President of AACAP (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) Professor Carlson is a Joint Editor of CAMH.
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What does a CAMHS MDT need to know about the genetics of psychiatric disorder?
Our knowledge of the genetics of psychiatric disorders has increased rapidly in recent years. Discover what has been learnt, focusing on some of the psychiatric disorders commonly seen in CAMHS, before going on to discuss how these findings may be relevant to clinical practice.
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Bipolar debate
In the latest edition of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal we have a series of papers debating Bipolar. Get involved and give us your views.
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Parents with BD receive online support
The value of a unique interactive, web-based resource that provides psychoeducational and parenting information for patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and young children has been supported by promising results of a randomised, controlled pilot trial.
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