2007, ISBN: 9780345479891

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Broadway. Good. 1.25 x 6.75 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 2000. 398 pages. Ex-library.<br>From the authors of the classic text Ov ercoming Depression, here is the first book about early… More...

Broadway. Good. 1.25 x 6.75 x 9.75 inches. Hardcover. 2000. 398 pages. Ex-library.<br>From the authors of the classic text Ov ercoming Depression, here is the first book about early-onset bip olar disorder. Bipolar disorder--manic depression--was once thou ght to be rare in children. Now researchers are discovering that not only can bipolar disorder begin very early in life, but also that it is much more common than ever imagined. Yet the illness i s often misdiagnosed or overlooked. Why? Bipolar disorder manife sts itself differently in children than in adults, and in childre n there is an overlap of symptoms with other childhood psychiatri c disorders. As a result, these kids may be given any number of p sychiatric labels: ADHD, Depressed, Oppositional Defiant Disorder , Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or Separation Anxiety Disorder. Too often they are treated with stimulants or antidepressants--me dications that can actually worsen the bipolar condition. The Bi polar Child demystifies this disorder of childhood. Drawing upon recent advances in the fields of neuroscience and genetics, the P apoloses convey what is known and not known about the illness. Th ey comprehensively detail the diagnosis, tell how to find good tr eatment and medications, and advise parents about ways to advocat e effectively for their children at school. Included in these pag es is the first Individual Education Plan--IEP--ever published fo r a bipolar child. The book also offers critical information abou t the stages of adolescence, hospitalization, the world of insura nce, and the psychological impact the illness has on the child. The Bipolar Child is rich with the voices of parents, siblings, a nd the children themselves, opening up the long-closed world of t he families struggling with this condition. An invaluable resourc e for parents whose children suffer from mood disorders, as well as the professionals who treat and educate them, this book will p rove to have major public health significance. Editorial Reviews Amazon Review For any caregiver experiencing life with a bi polar child, Demitri and Janice Papolos's The Bipolar Child will be an indispensable reference guide. The material is presented cl early, with lots of helpful charts and lists to aid in receiving proper diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care. All medical info rmation is relayed with the aim of helping parents to ensure effe ctive treatment for their children and includes journal-tracking formats to help caregivers provide accurate information to person al physicians. Importantly, many pages are devoted to discussions about the emotional upheavals that living with a bipolar child c an bring, and how parents and children can cope most effectively. The book is filled with families' stories that do a beautiful jo b providing comfort and inspiration to others. A detailed chapter on hospitalization covers everything from insurance to types of treatments. The authors provide excellent information regarding i mproved educational practices, with step-by-step instructions for goal-setting with your child and communicating your child's need s to school personnel. The Bipolar Child is a satisfying and wise read. --Jill Lightner From Publishers Weekly Demitri, associate professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine i n New York, and his wife, Janice (authors of Overcoming Depressio n), present a comprehensive view of early-onset bipolar disorder, focusing on how this complicated illness evolves in children. Th e authors warn that nearly one-third of children diagnosed with a ttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may actually be bi polar (previously called manic depression), and they stress the i mportance of getting early diagnosis and treatmentAespecially sin ce ritalin, which is commonly prescribed for ADHD, may worsen the bipolar child's condition. The authors dispel the myth that bipo lar disorder occurs only in adolescents and adults and note that cases of bipolar disorder are increasingly occurring at a younger age. While the book sounds several alarms, it also offers suppor t to parents (Demitri is the adviser for an online support group for parents of bipolar children, from which the authors culled mu ch of their anecdotal information). In addition to diagnosis and treatment, the authors discuss practical ways to deal with the co ndition itself, as well as the impact it has on the entire family . This is an important guide for parents seeking ways to cope wit h this potentially devastating disorder. (Dec.) Copyright 1999 R eed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In their fri ghtening yet supportive book, Papolos (psychiatry, Albert Einstei n Coll. of Medicine) and his wife (coauthor, with her husband, of Overcoming Depression) describe life with a bipolar child in gre at detail. These authors write for real people with very real day -to-day crises, laying out in generalists' terms the psychopathol ogy and genetics of bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-dep ression). They emphasize the importance and difficulties of findi ng the correct diagnosis and drug therapies. Their empathetic dis cussions of the extended family, school-related problems, hospita lization, insurance companies, welfare, and adolescence suggest w hat to expect, what to say, and how to advocate for bipolar child ren. A listing of helpful organizations and web sites as well as resources, questionnaires, and an extensive bibliography are all provided. Highly recommended, especially for teachers and familie s of bipolar children. -AMargaret Cardwell, Georgia Perimeter Col l., Clarkston Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Re view Advance Praise for The Bipolar Child: Demitri and Janice P apolos have broken important new ground by taking on the challeng ing problem of bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder in children an d adolescents. . . . Their new book balances scientific and clini cal knowledge with moving personal accounts of experiences of rea l families. Their efforts are welcome. --Ross J. Baldessarini, M. D., Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical S chool, Director of the Bipolar & Psychotic Disorders Program, McL ean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital The Bipolar Child is a well-organized, practical, and authoritative book by highly knowledgeable authors. As the first book on this subject it fill s a huge void and will be extremely helpful for families --E. Ful ler Torrey, M.D., Executive Director, The National Alliance for t he Mentally Ill Research Institute The Papoloses have somehow ma naged to climb into the minds of the parents of bipolar children and answer our tremendous number of questions. . . . Finally, par ents of bipolar children have a book that will help them find hop e! --S. M. Tomie Burke, Founder, Parents of Bipolar Children and the BPPARENT Listserv This book should make the public as well a s the field of psychiatry rethink their perceptions of this devas tating illness of childhood. It is a book whose time has come. -- Victoria Secunda, author of When Madness Comes Home The Bipolar Child will help families understand the out-of-control child. It includes moving, well-written, and sensitive accounts from many f amilies who have experienced early onset of this very disabling d isorder. The good news is, however, that there is treatment and i t works. --Laurie Flynn, Executive Director, The National Allianc e for the Mentally Ill Research Institute From the Inside Flap F rom the authors of the classic text Overcoming Depression, here i s the first book about early-onset bipolar disorder. Bipolar dis order--manic depression--was once thought to be rare in children. Now researchers are discovering that not only can bipolar disord er begin very early in life, but also that it is much more common than ever imagined. Yet the illness is often misdiagnosed or ove rlooked. Why? Bipolar disorder manifests itself differently in c hildren than in adults, and in children there is an overlap of sy mptoms with other childhood psychiatric disorders. As a result, t hese kids may be given any number of psychiatric labels: ADHD, De pressed, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Diso rder, or Separation Anxiety Disorder. Too often they are treated with stimulants or antidepressants--medications that can actually worsen the bipolar condition. The Bipolar Child demystifies thi s disorder of childhood. Drawing upon recent advances in the fiel ds of neuroscience and genetics, the Papoloses convey what is kno wn and not known about the illness. They comprehensively detail t he diagnosis, tell how to find good treatment and medications, an d advise parents about ways to advocate effectively for their chi ldren at school. Included in these pages is the first Individual Education Plan--IEP--ever published for a bipolar child. The book also offers critical information about the stages of adolescence , hospitalization, the world of insurance, and the psychological impact the illness has on the child. The Bipolar Child is rich w ith the voices of parents, siblings, and the children themselves, opening up the long-closed world of the families struggling with this condition. An invaluable resource for parents whose childre n suffer from mood disorders, as well as the professionals who tr eat and educate them, this book will prove to have major public h ealth significance. About the Author Demitri Papolos, M.D., is a n associate professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and the codirector of the Program in B ehavioral Genetics. He is the medical advisor for Parents of Bipo lar Children, an on-line support group, and the chair of the prof essional advisory board of the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Found ation. Janice Papolos is the author of three books, all recognize d as definitive in their field. The Papoloses live in Westport, C onnecticut. Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reser ved. Voices from the Front In 1992 Tomie Burke, a young mother i n Pullman, Washington, developed a listserv (called BPParents) fo r parents of children with bipolar disorder. She was motivated to do so because when her six-year-old son first began experiencing the baffling and frightening symptoms of the illness, she search ed community and university libraries, bookstores, databases, and Internet pages in her desperate desire to become educated about the illness and to help her child. She found little to check out, purchase, or download. But eventually she did become extremely knowledgeable about the illness, and she wanted to reach out to o ther families--to provide information and assure them that they w ere not alone. She soon had an address on the World Wide Web call ed Parents of Bipolar Children. The site consisted of a home page , links to information about the disorder, and a guest book where parents could describe how they found the site, note whether the y had a boy or girl with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and com ment a bit about their situations. The messages left by parents who visited convey a desperate need for information and sheer rel ief when they discover that they are not alone-that the illness i s not uncommon and that it isn't caused by bad parenting. That fi rst year thousands of parents came to the site seeking help for t heir children. What is early-onset bipolar disorder, and why is it such a little-known illness? Most people have never heard of t he expression, but it is actually psychiatry's phrase for manic-d epression that occurs early--very early--in life. (Adults who use d to be diagnosed manic-depressive are now also referred to as ha ving bipolar disorder.) Bipolar disorder in children is a neglec ted public health problem. It is estimated that one-third of all the children in this country who are being diagnosed with attenti on-deficit disorder with hyperactivity are actually suffering fro m early symptoms of bipolar disorder. Since close to 4 million ch ildren were prescribed stimulants such as Ritalin in 1998, that's over 1 million children who eventually will be diagnosed as bipo lar. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Ps ychiatry, a third of the 3.4 million children who first seem to b e suffering with depression will go on to manifest the bipolar fo rm of a mood disorder. Researchers in the field of early-onset bi polar disorder peg that figure closer to 50 percent. Amid all the dry statistics stand several million suffering children as well as their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and grandparents. This illness is as old as humankind, and has probably been conser ved in the human genome because it confers great energy and origi nality of thought. People who have had it have literally changed the course of human history: Manic-depression has afflicted (and probably fueled the brilliance of) people like Isaac Newton, Abra ham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Johann Goethe , Honoré de Balzac, George Frederic Handel, Ludwig von Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, E rnest Hemingway, Robert Lowell, and Anne Sexton. But until recen tly, manic-depression was thought to affect people in their early twenties or older. It was not viewed as an illness that could oc cur among children. This has proven to be myth. The temperamenta l features and behaviors of bipolar disorder can begin to emerge very early on--even in infancy. But because a vast majority of bi polar children also meet criteria for ADHD (and the focus of drug treatment strategies becomes the symptoms of ADHD), the bipolar illness is typically overlooked. As a result, drugs are prescribe d to deal only with the symptoms of hyperactivity and distractibi lity. And, since many, many children initially develop depressive symptoms as the earliest manifestation of the illness, bipolar d isorder may again be discounted as the primary diagnosis. Childh ood bipolar disorder can overlap or occur with many disorders of childhood other than ADHD or depression: panic disorder, generali zed anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and To urette's syndrome, to name a few. And this mixed-symptom picture can be perplexing and confound diagnosis. Moreover, only in the p ast few years has bipolar disorder become the focus of research i nquiry. The Illness in Adults Bipolar disorder in children pres ents very differently from how it presents in adults. Adults typi cally experience a more classical pattern of mood swings. In the manic phase, the person experiences an increased rate of thinking , has surges of energy, and describes him- or herself as feeling more active, creative, intelligent, and sexual than he or she eve r, Broadway, 2000, 2.5, Ballantine Books. Very Good. 5.21 x 0.66 x 7.97 inches. Paperback. 2007. 304 pages. <br>In this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newswee k science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge scienc e and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering exper iments in neuroplasticity-the ability of the brain to change in r esponse to experience-reveal that the brain is capable of alterin g its structure and function, and even of generating new neurons, a power we retain well into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, compensate for disabilities, rewire it self to overcome dyslexia, and break cycles of depression and OCD . And as scientists are learning from studies performed on Buddhi st monks, it is not only the outside world that can change the br ain, so can the mind and, in particular, focused attention throug h the classic Buddhist practice of mindfulness. With her gift fo r making science accessible, meaningful, and compelling, Sharon B egley illuminates a profound shift in our understanding of how th e brain and the mind interact and takes us to the leading edge of a revolution in what it means to be human. There are two great things about this book. One is that it shows us how nothing about our brains is set in stone. The other is that it is written by S haron Begley, one of the best science writers around. Begley is s uperb at framing the latest facts within the larger context of th e field. . . . This is a terrific book. -Robert M. Sapolsky, auth or of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Excellent . . . elegant and lu cid prose . . . an open mind here will be rewarded. -Discover mag azine A strong dose of hope along with a strong does of science and Buddhist thought. -The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Rev iews Review Excellent . . . elegant and lucid prose . . . an ope n mind here will be rewarded.--Discover A strong dose of hope al ong with a strong does of science and Buddhist thought.--The San Diego Union-Tribune There are two great things about this book. One is that it shows us how nothing about our brains is set in st one. The other is that it is written by Sharon Begley, one of the best science writers around. Begley is superb at framing the lat est facts within the larger context of the field. She also gives us the back stories that reveal how human the process of science research is. This is a terrific book.--Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Reading this book is like opening d oors in the mind. Sharon Begley brings the reader right to the in tersection of scientific and meditative understanding, a place of exciting potential for personal and global transformation. And s he does it so skillfully as to seem effortless.--Sharon Salzberg, author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience It is ver y seldom that a science in its infancy is so skillfully unpacked that it reads like a detective novel. The fact that this science includes collaborative efforts of neuroscientists, psychologists, contemplatives, philosophers, and the full engagement of the gen ius of the Dalai Lama is not only fascinating, but uplifting and inspiring. This book lets you know that how you pay attention to your experience can change your entire way of being.--Jon Kabat-Z inn, author of Coming to Our Senses I have meditated for forty y ears, and have long felt that the potential of mind training to i mprove our emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being has bare ly been tapped. Thanks to Sharon Begley's fascinating book, thoug h, that is about to change. As human beings, we really do have in ner powers that can make a world of difference, particularly if o ur goal is not merely to advance our own agendas, but to cultivat e compassion for the benefit of all living beings.--John Robbins, author of Healthy at 100 and Diet For a New America This is a t ruly illuminating and eminently readable book on the revolutionar y new insights in mind sciences. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in understanding human potential.--Jack Kornfield, aut hor of A Path with Heart About the Author Sharon Begley is the s enior science writer at STAT, the life sciences publication of Th e Boston Globe. Previously she was the senior health and science correspondent at Reuters, the science editor and science columnis t at Newsweek, and the science columnist at The Wall Street Journ al. She is the author of Can't Just Stop: An Investigation of Com pulsions and Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain and the co-author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain (with Richard J. Davidson) a nd The Mind and the Brain (with Jeffrey M. Schwartz). Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 Can We Change? Challenging the Dogma of the Hardwired Brain The norther n Indian district of Dharamsala is composed of two towns, lower D haramsala and upper. The mist-veiled peaks of the Dhauladhar (whi te ridge) range hug the towns like the bolster on a giant's bed, while the Kangra Valley, described by a British colonial official as a picture of rural loveliness and repose, stretches into the distance. Upper Dharamsala is also known as McLeod Ganj. Founded as a hill station in the nineteenth century during the days of Br itish colonial rule, the bustling hamlet (named after Britain's l ieutenant governor of Punjab at the time, David McLeod) is built on a ridge, where hiking the steep dirt path from one guesthouse to another requires the sure-footedness of a goat and astute enou gh planning that you don't make the ankle-turning trek after dark and risk tumbling into a ravine. Cows amble through intersectio ns where street peddlers squat behind cloths piled with vegetable s and grains, and taxis play a game of chicken with oncoming traf fic, seeing who will lose his manhood first by edging his car out of the single lane of the town's only real thoroughfare. The roa d curves past beggars and holy men who wear little but a loinclot h and look as if they have not eaten since last week, yet whose m any woes are neatly listed on a computer printout that they hopef ully thrust at any passerby who slows even half a pace. Barefoot children dart out of nowhere at the sight of a Westerner and plea d, Please, madam, hungry baby, hungry baby, pointing vaguely towa rd the open-air stalls that line the road. From the flagstoned t errace of Chonor House, one of the guesthouses, all of Dharamsala spreads out before you. As soon as the sun is up, the maroon-rob ed monks are scurrying to prayers and the holy men crouched in ba ck alleys are chanting om mani padme hum (hail to jewel in the lo tus). Prayer scarves fluttering from boughs carry the Tibetan wor ds May all sentient beings be happy and free from suffering. The prayers are supposed to be carried by the wind, and when you see them, you think, Wherever the wind blows, may those they touch fi nd freedom from their pain. Although lower Dharamsala is inhabit ed mostly by Indians, residents of McLeod Ganj are almost all Tib etan (with a sprinkling of Western expatriates and spiritual tour ists), refugees who followed Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, into exile. Many of those remaining in Tibet, unable to fle e themselves, have their toddlers and even infants smuggled acros s the border to Dharamsala, where they are cared for and educated at the Tibetan Children's Village ten minutes above the town. Fo r the parents, the price of ensuring that their children are educ ated in Tibetan culture and history, thus keeping their nation's traditions and identity from being erased by the Chinese occupati on, is never seeing their sons and daughters again. McLeod Ganj has been the Dalai Lama' s home in exile and the headquarters of the Tibetan government in exile since 1959, when he escaped ahead of Chinese Communist troops, which had invaded Tibet eight years earlier. His compound, just off the main intersection where buse s turn around and taxis wait for fares, is protected around the c lock by Indian troops toting machine guns. The entrance is a tiny hut whose physical presence is as humble as the guards are thoro ugh. From its anteroom, large enough for only a small sofa, dog-e ared publications in a wooden rack, and a small coffee table, you pass through a door into the security room, where you place ever ything you want to bring in (bags, notebooks, cameras, tape recor ders) on the X-ray belt before entering a closet-size booth, curt ained at both ends, for the requisite pat-down by Tibetan guards. Once cleared, you amble up an inclined asphalt path that winds past more Indian security guards draped with submachine guns and lounging in the shade. The sprawling grounds are forested with pi nes and rhododendrons; ceramic pots spilling purple bougainvillea and saffron marigolds surround the widely spaced buildings. The first structure to your right is a one-story building that houses the Dalai Lama's audience chamber, also guarded by an Indian sol dier with an automatic weapon. Just beyond is the Tibetan library and archives, and farther up the hill, the Dalai Lama's two-stor y private compound, where he sleeps, meditates, and takes most of his meals. The large structure to the left is the old palace whe re the Dalai Lama lived before his current residence was built. M ostly used for ordinations, for the next five days its large main room will be the setting for an extraordinary meeting. Brought t ogether by the Mind and Life Institute in October 2004, leading s cholars from both the Buddhist and the Western scientific traditi ons will grapple with a question that has consumed philosophers a nd scientists for centuries: does the brain have the ability to c hange, and what is the power of the mind to change it? Hardwired Dogma Just a few years before, neuroscientists would not even h ave been part of this conversation, for textbooks, science course s, and cutting-edge research papers all hewed to the same line, a s they had for almost as long as there had been a science of the brain. No less a personage than William James, the father of ex perimental psychology in the United States, first introduced the word plasticity to the science of the brain, positing in 1890 tha t organic matter, especially nervous tissue, seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity. By that, he meant a str ucture weak enough to yield to an influence. But James was only a psychologist, not a neurologist (there was no such thing as a ne uroscientist a century ago), and his speculation went nowhere. Mu ch more influential was the view expressed succinctly in 1913 by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the great Spanish neuroanatomist who had won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine seven years earlier . Near the conclusion of his treatise on the nervous system, he d eclared, In the adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed , ended and immutable. His gloomy assessment that the circuits of the living brain are unchanging, its structures and organization almost as static and stationary as a deathly white cadaver brain floating in a vat of formaldehyde, remained the prevailing dogma in neuroscience for almost a century. The textbook wis- dom held that the adult brain is hardwired, fixed in form and function, s o that by the time we reach adulthood, we are pretty much stuck w ith what we have. Conventional wisdom in neuroscience held that the adult mammalian brain is fixed in two respects: no new neuron s are born in it, and the functions of the structures that make i t up are immutable, so that if genes and development dictate that this cluster of neurons will process signals from the eye, and t his cluster will move the fingers of the right hand, then by god they'll do that and nothing else come hell or high water. There w as good reason why all those extravagantly illustrated brain book s show the function, size, and location of the brain's structures in permanent ink. As late as 1999, neurologists writing in the p restigious journal Science admitted, We are still taught that the fully mature brain lacks the intrinsic mechanisms needed to repl enish neurons and reestablish neuronal networks after acute injur y or in response to the insidious loss of neurons seen in neurode gen- erative diseases. That is not to say that scientists failed to recognize that the brain must undergo some changes throughout life. After all, since the brain is the organ of behavior and th e repository of learning and memory, when we acquire new knowledg e or master a new skill or file away the remembrance of things pa st, the brain changes in some real, physical way to make that hap pen. Indeed, researchers have known for decades that learning and memory find their physiological expression in the formation of n ew synapses (points of connection between neurons) and the streng thening of existing ones; in 2000, the wise men of Stockholm even awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discover y of the molecular underpinnings of memory. But the changes unde rlying learning and memory are of the retail variety--strengtheni ng a few synapses here and there or sprouting a few extra dendrit es so neurons can talk to more of their neighbors, like a househo ld getting an extra phone line. Wholesale changes, such as expand ing a region that is in charge of a particular mental function or altering the wiring that connects one region to another, were de emed impossible. Also impossible was for the basic layout of the brain to deviate one iota from the authoritative diagrams in ana tomy textbooks: the visual cortex in the back was hardwired to ha ndle the sense of sight, the somatosensory cortex curving along t he top of the brain was hardwired to process tactile sensations, the motor cortex was hardwired to devote a precise amount of neur al real estate to each muscle, and the auditory cortex was hardwi red to field transmissions from the ears. Enshrined from clinical practice to scholarly monographs, this principle held that in co ntrast to the ability of the developing brain to change in signif icant ways, the adult brain is fixed, immutable. It has lost the capacity called neuroplasticity, the ability to change its struct ures and functions in a fundamental way. ., Ballantine Books, 2007, 3<

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