Are low basal serum levels of the thyroid stimulating hormone (b-TSH) a risk factor for switches into states of expansive syndromes (known in Germany as 'maniform syndromes' in bipolar I depression?

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 75-77

  Bottlender, Ronald ^a   Rudolf, D ^a   Strauss A ^a   Moller H J ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 0034022902     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-7973     Document Type: Article

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