COMORBID DISORDERS IN HOSPITALIZED BIPOLAR ADOLESCENTS COMPARED WITH UNIPOLAR DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS

This study examined comorbid psychiatric disorders in adolescents with bipolar disorder. Hospitalized bipolar adolescents (N = 10) were comp ared to hospitalized adolescents with unipolar depression (N = 33), an d to adolescents with nonaffective psychiatric disorders (N = 11). Res ults showed conduct disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder , psychosis, and having any DSM-III-R psychoactive substance use disor der were all significantly more common in the bipolar group than the u nipolar depressed group. Comorbid anxiety disorder was present in 40-4 5% of the subjects in the unipolar and bipolar groups, but in none of the control group subjects.