The Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by a suburban, reality-based, slightly-left-of-center guy, who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times. Topics: social commentary, neuroscience, politics, science news. Mission: to develop connections between hard science and social science, using linear thinking and intuition; and to explore the relative merits of spontaneity vs. strategy. ...
The Archives of General Psychiatry has an open-access article about bipolar disorder in childhood ( Child Bipolar I Disorder ). I started to write about that. But then, as often happens, I stumbled upon something else. The LA Times has a consumer-oriented article about the journal article. It is one of those OK-level news articles. One glaring error: the author cites the " Archives of General Psychology ," which is the wrong journal; it's in the Archives of General Psychiatry. That aside, I found an earlier article on the LA Times about the subject: Bipolar disorder may be over-diagnosed (which is based on an article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology Psychiatry ). To be fair, it is on their health blog; it is not a regular newspaper article. So we shouldn't hold it to the same standards. (On a blog, the only standard that matters, is the standard that the author sets for the blog.) We do not know if bipolar disorder is over-diagnosed. To know that, we would have to know the true incidence of the disorder, and the incidence of cases diagnosed as bipolar disorder. If the number of diagnosed cases is greater that the true number of cases, then it is overdiagnosed. The uncertainty about the is reflected in the conclusion of the JCP article: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ...
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