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Grant to support study of bipolar disorder in children.(researchers at Stanford University's Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program receive grant from Heinz C. Prechter Fund for Manic Depression )
The Heinz C. Prechter Fund for Manic Depression has awarded a $345,000 grant to researchers at the Pediatric Bipolar Disorders Program at Stanford University, the fund's founder and president, Waltraud "Wally" Prechter, announced. The funds will be used to study the genetics of early onset bipolar disorder. Researchers Kiki Chang, M.D., and Joachim Hallmayer, M.D., Ph.D., will focus on children whose parents have bipolar disorder.
About 14 to 24 percent of children with bipolar parents have some type of bipolar disorder and about one in four have a mood disorder. These children often exhibit more severe symptoms earlier than their parents did. The researchers hope to …
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