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FIRST FELLOWSHIP IN JUVENILE-ONSET BIPOLAR DISORDER TO BE OFFERED

PAWLING, NY/February 14, 2002 -- The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation raises and distributes funds for the most promising research into the causes, treatments and prevention of early-onset bipolar disorder. The JBRF is the first Foundation of its kind devoted solely to research in childhood-onset bipolar disorder, and this is the first time a fellowship in childhood-onset bipolar disorder has been offered as a means for specialty training.

The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation, in conjunction with New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, is offering a 1-2 year clinical/research fellowship for psychiatrists who have completed a child and adolescent psychiatry residency and are seeking specialized training in diagnosis, clinical treatment and research related to bipolar disorders in children and adolescents.

Fellows will receive training in the administration of standardized research diagnostic interviews and will take an active role in a research project designed to examine chronobiological aspects of juvenile-onset bipolar disorder. Drawing from a distinguished interdisciplinary faculty, the fellowship program will provide a unique opportunity to learn and apply research methodologies in a variety of areas, including clinical phenomenology, neuropsychology, and circadian studies. Excellent clinical supervision will be conducted by senior child and adult psychiatrists who specialize in the diagnosis and pharmacological management of mood disorders throughout the life cycle.

The primary training site will be at the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital, located at the Hospital’s Westchester Division, a 226-bed academic psychiatric hospital located in White Plains, N.Y.

Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness) affects more than 1 million children and adolescents in the United States at any given time. Abrupt swings of mood and energy that occur multiple times within a day, intense outbursts of temper, poor frustration tolerance, and oppositional defiant behaviors are commonplace in juvenile-onset bipolar disorder. These children veer from irritable, easily annoyed, angry mood states to silly, goofy, giddy elation, and then just as easily descend into low energy periods of intense boredom, depression and social withdrawal, fraught with self-recriminations and suicidal thoughts. Recent studies have found that from the time of initial manifestation of symptoms, it takes an average of ten years before a diagnosis is made.

Interested applicants should contact Demitri F. Papolos, M.D., Director of Research, The Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation; E-mail: dpapolos@JBRF.org, Telephone: 203-226-2216, Fax: 203-222-2248, Mail: 7 Whitney Street Extension, Westport, CT 06880.

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