Depressive mixed state: Testing different definitions

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 647-652

  Benazzi, Franco ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bipolar II; Depressive mixed state; Unipolar

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MELANCHOLIA; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035212674     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2001.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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