The objective of this Child and Adolescent Mental Health Academic Award application is to assist in scholarly activities in the chronobiology of Childhood and Adolescent Mood, Sleep and Seasonality and to develop a Biomedical Research Section within the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This award will focus his efforts in five specific areas: review and refine criteria needed to diagnose bipolar mood disorders in children and adolescents and develop operational definitions of mania, hypomania and hyperthymia; investigate the epidemiology of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in junior and senior high school students; develop ambulatory measures of circadian and infradian (seasonal) behavioral rhythms of mood, energy, sleep and appetite to validate the symptoms reported in highly seasonal adolescent; initiate a series of treatment studies to determine the most effective timing and duration of phototherapy for adolescents with SAD; and develop family cohorts for the study of the genetic aspects of mood, sleep and seasonality. These research projects would occur within the context of a Family Mood, Sleep and Seasonality Clinic.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Type
Academic/Teacher Award (ATA) (K07)
Project #
5K07MH000769-03
Application #
3077779
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (SRCM (03))
Project Start
1989-02-01
Project End
1992-01-31
Budget Start
1991-02-01
Budget End
1992-01-31
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1991
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Pennsylvania
Department
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
042250712
City
Philadelphia
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
19104