title: Affect regulation in pediatric bipolar disorder.
abstract: Increasingly, clinicians and researchers alike are describing children presenting with emotional and behavioral problems as suffering from deficits of "affect regulation." The present article reviews the current understanding of affect regulation. The authors also discuss recent findings implicating affect dysregulation in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Mood, Imaging, & Neurodevelopment Program, EP Bradley Hospital, Bradley/Hasbro Children's Research Center, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 1 Hoppin Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA. daniel_dickstein@brown.edu
authors.forename: Daniel P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Dickstein
authors.forename: Alison C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Brazel
authors.forename: Lisa D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: Jeffrey I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Hunt
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D000679:Amygdala / Q000503:physiopathology; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000503:physiopathology; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007508:Irritable Mood; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D012927:Social Control, Informal