Current Approaches to Diagnostics of Bipolar Affective Disorder in Adolescents

Abstract

The review is devoted to diagnosing bipolar affective disorder in adolescence. The article summarizes the domestic and foreign research findings concerning the early disease manifestations, the specific features of the disease course, and the relationship with mental and corporal comorbidity. Special attention is paid to the diagnosis of hypomania, based on the recommendations of modern international diagnostic systems: DSM-V (APA, 2013), and the draft International Classification of Diseases, ICD-11 2019. Early detection of affective disorder in adolescents using screening study methods is shown to be significant.