A novel technique to evaluate fluctuations of mood: Implications for evaluating course and treatment effects in bipolar/affective disorders

Bipolar Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue 5 I, 2006, Pages 453-466

  Rao, V Sree Hari ^a   Rao, C Raghvendra ^b   Yeragani, Vikram K ^c,d,e,f  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d M S RAMAIAH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; ApEn; Linear; Mean; Mood; New index; Nonlinear; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTROPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MANIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOOD DISORDER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

AFFECT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; ENTROPY; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33749827179     PISSN: 13985647     EISSN: 13995618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2006.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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