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Background: Bipolar disorder is a commonly misdiagnosed mood disorder. When misdiagnosis occurs, consequences result from improper treatments. Genetic variants have been associated with bipolar disorder, but those variants have yet to help accurately diagnose individuals with th…

The status of irritability as a feature of mood and behavior disorders in children has been a topic of much debate. One problem is that the construct has been inconsistently and narrowly defined. The present work uses exploratory analyses of a novel behavioral measure to clarify…