How to differentiate bipolar disorder from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other common psychiatric disorders: A guide for Clinicians

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 98-103

  Sood, Aradhana Bela ^a   Razdan, Amit ^b   Weller, Elizabeth B ^b   Weller, Ronald A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; AMPHETAMINE; CANNABIS; COCAINE; PHENCYCLIDINE;

ANAMNESIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EUPHORIA; FAMILY HISTORY; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; IRRITABILITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOOD DISORDER; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOM; THOUGHT DISORDER;

EID: 20444420850     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-005-0005-8     Document Type: Review

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