The addition of new diagnoses in psychiatry is not a rare event. After all, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, published in 1952, was ...

Is your child often irritable or prone to temper outbursts? Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, clarifies the distinctions between bipolar disorder and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), ...

Chloe, 8, suffers from DMDD (disruptive mood dysregulation disorder). A young girl in Texas with special needs has touched hearts everywhere after a video of her at a baseball game went viral. In the ...

Over the years, more and more parents have walked into my office describing a similar, challenging pattern in their children—kids who don’t just get upset but explode. They have quick tempers, intense ...

The 8-year-old, Chloe, suffers from disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Eight-year-old Chloe is a huge fan of the Houston Astros -- so huge that her loud cheering provoked another baseball watcher ...