Unipolar versus bipolar disorder: A distinction not helpful for studies of causality

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 405-407

  Holsboer, Florian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; MOOD STABILIZER;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC LOAD; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TERMINOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29444449927     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-005-0059-7     Document Type: Note

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