Regardless of how “chronic” irritability was considered in terms of diagnosis, all agreed that the youth experiencing this type of irritability were severely impaired ( Biederman et al., 2004 Carlson et al., 2009 Leibenluft, 2011). As a result, there was a raging debate on the prevalence and presentation of pediatric bipolar disorder ( Althoff, 2010 Biederman et al., 2004 Carlson and Glovinsky, 2009 Diler et al., 2009 Leibenluft, 2011 Mick et al., 2005). The vast majority of such youth, and even some preschoolers, were primarily being treated with mood stabilizers and a new generation of antipsychotic drugs. In the United States of America (USA), in less than a decade, the rates of bipolar disorder diagnosis in children and adolescents had shown a dramatic increase (40-fold) in both inpatient and outpatient settings ( Blader and Carlson, 2007 Moreno et al., 2007). Others have argued that pediatric patients with bipolar disorder manifest rapid cycling between elevated and depressive moods in a single day ( Geller et al., 1998). Therefore, we need to expand our efforts to better understand the complex construct of this phenotype in order to improve the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of this condition.Īround the mid-1990s, some clinician-scientists have asserted that mania presents differently in children and adolescents compared to adults pediatric mania presents not as distinct euphoric or irritable episodes as defined in DSM-IV ( American Psychiatric Association, 1994), but as persistent, non-episodic, severe irritability ( Biederman et al., 1998 Faraone et al., 1997 Wozniak et al., 1995). Regardless of this controversy, it is clear that youth experiencing such symptoms are highly impaired and utilize significant health services.
Because of the limited available data, the inclusion of this new diagnosis in DSM-5 has been controversial. The diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder requires frequent, persistent, severe temper outbursts out of proportion to the situation and developmental context in combination with persistent, angry/irritable mood between the temper outbursts.
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This paper will describe historical perspectives for the introduction of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), criteria for the diagnosis, as well as information on epidemiology, clinical presentation and longitudinal course, pathophysiology, and treatment.
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