“…Our group performed a series of clinical trials for the treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder, examining the effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotics (olanzapine, risperidone, aripiprazole, quetiapine, ziprasidone, and paliperidone; Biederman, McDonnell, Wozniak, Spencer, et al, 2005; Biederman, Mick, Hammerness, Harpold, et al, 2005; Biederman, Mick, Wozniak, Aleardi, Spencer, & Faraone, 2005; Biederman, Mick, Faraone, et al, 2006; Biederman, Mick, Spencer, Dougherty, Aleardi, & Wozniak, 2007; Biederman, Mick, Spencer, Doyle, Joshi, et al, 2007; Frazier et al, 1999; Joshi, Petty, Wozniak, Faraone, et al, 2013; Joshi, Petty et al, 2012; Tohen et al, 2007; Wozniak et al, 2009) as well as anticonvulsants (valproic acid, carbamazepine, and lamotrigine; Biederman, Joshi, Mick, Doyle, et al, 2010; Joshi, Wozniak, Mick, Doyle, et al, 2010; Wozniak, Faraone, Martelon, et al, 2012; Wozniak, Hammerness et al, 2012) and complementary and alternative treatments (Wozniak et al, 2007, 2015; Wozniak, DiSalvo, Farrell, Vaudreuil, Uchida, Ceranoglu, et al, 2022; Wozniak, Farrell, DiSalvo, et al, 2022). These open label trials, some of which included pre-school aged children, provided an early evidence base for addressing symptoms of mania in these severely impaired children.…”