How do you treat disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?

Answer from: at Academic Institution

DMDD is quite an enigma. The whole concept of irritability, which transcends many diagnoses, is also interesting. DMDD was meant to avoid overdiagnosis of moody disruptive behavior as bipolar. Since many of those kids are not suffering from bipolar disorder, I thought it was a great move. Unfortunat...

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at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
It would be helpful to know what % of children dia...

at Private Practice
I would try Lamictal.

at Duke University
My understanding with the limited knowledge of pro...

at Village For Families And Children
Just looked into this. More than a decade after th...

at Private Practice
Mood stabilizers such as Lamictal or gabapentin al...

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Answer from: at Community Practice

Clinically, I have seen that patients who come to me with a diagnosis of DMDD may actually have ADHD/ODD, MDD, PTSD, or/and anxiety disorders. So I generally make sure that these other diagnoses are not missed before diagnosing DMDD. DMDD can be diagnosed with other disorders except for ODD (as most...

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at Siegel Clifford Office
My sense has also been that DMDD was created as an...

at Biological Psychiatry Center Pc
An excellent discussion of the subject. The ambigu...

at Legacy Community Health
I prefer oxcarbazepine as well. Treat any co-occur...

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Answer from: at Community Practice

DMDD is a fairly new diagnosis in the DSM, it is under the cluster of depressive disorders and, in my opinion, should be under anxiety disorders or impulsive control disorders. DMDD is usually a response to frustration and feeling overwhelmed. DMDD is associated many times with an OCPD. Children an...

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