Like adults, children and adolescents can get depressed, displaying persistent sadness and loss of interest in once pleasurable activities, including a sense of discouragement and feelings of ...

Is your child often irritable or prone to temper outbursts? Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies the distinctions between bipolar disorder and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), ...

The addition of new diagnoses in psychiatry is not a rare event. After all, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, published in 1952, was ...

A clinical trial from New Zealand suggests that severe emotional distress in teenagers can be exacerbated by nutritional deficiencies in their diet.

“It was like a cloud had lifted, and she could think more rationally again.” That’s how one mother described her teenage daughter — a sufferer of “erratic mood swings” — after eight weeks on a ...