ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2018
Commentary: Frying pan to fire? Commentary on Stringaris et al. (2018).
Article in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Understanding irritability through the lens of self-regulatory control processes in children and adolescents: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Parent and Teacher Ratings of Tonic and Phasic Irritability in a Clinical Sample.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Preschool Irritability Predicts Adolescent Psychopathology and Functional Impairment: A 12-Year Prospective Study.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Pre-pubertal bipolar disorder: origins and current status of the controversy.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2020Review
- Heritability, stability, and prevalence of tonic and phasic irritability as indicators of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2019Article
- What do we really know about PRN use in agitated children with mental health conditions: a clinical review.Evidence-based mental health · 2018Review
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Abstract
The bipolar disorder diagnosis in prepubertal children became popular because it answered a clinical need to treat the explosive behavior component of irritability and the hope that antimanic strategies would be helpful. Poor definition of episodes resulted in mixing chronic and episodic irritability in samples of children with bipolar disorder. The subsequent dramatic increase in neuroleptic use is a testimony to the importance of the problem of irritability and our need to better understand it. Insofar as our use of the term irritability conflates proneness to anger with the subsequent aggressive response, it will again not be clear who is being studied. We need to uncouple the mood and behavior aspects of irritability for further study or we will have traded the imprecision of "bipolar" for the imprecision of irritability.
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