This debate between Dr. Joe Biederman at Harvard and Dr. Klein, et al., was published in the October, 1998, issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and is posted here by permission of the Academy.

Series Editor: Lenore C. Terr, M.D.

Reprinted with permission of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry andLipincott Williams & Wilkins, publishers.

• Affirmative
• Negative
• Affirmative Rebuttal
• Negative Rebuttal

AFFIRMATIVE: JOSEPH BIEDERMAN, M.D.

This series of articles by Gabrielle Carlson, M.D., has focused on possible early predictors of bipolar illness in children and adolescents. They cite that bipolar in children is more common than has been believed and that the illness overlaps with behavior disorders.  Depression is often early sign of BPD.