Do personality traits predict first onset in depressive and bipolar disorder?

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-88

  Christensen, Maj Vinberg ^a   Kessing, Lars Vedel ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Depressive disorder; Follow up studies; Personality; Prospective studies

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MANIA; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646109812     PISSN: 08039488     EISSN: 15024725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039480600600300     Document Type: Review

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