Clinical features of soft bipolarity in major depressive inpatients

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 611-615

  Utsumi, Takeshi ^a   Sasaki, Tsukasa ^b   Shimada, Iwao ^a   Mabuchi, Mayuko ^a,c   Motonaga, Takuro ^a   Ohtani, Toshiyuki ^d   Tochigi, Mamoru ^d   Kato, Nobumasa ^d   Nanko, Shinichiro ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipolar II disorder; Borderline personality disorder; Comorbidity; Premorbid personality; Soft bipolarity; Symptomatology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HYPOMANIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 33748344712     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2006.01566.x     Document Type: Article

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