Culture and assessment of manic symptoms

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 189, Issue OCT., 2006, Pages 379-380

  Mackin, Paul ^a,d   Targum, Steven D ^b   Kalali, Amir ^c   Rom, Dror ^b   Young, Allan H ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PharmaStar   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL BIAS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MANIA; PSYCHIATRIST; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIPOLAR DISORDER; CULTURE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 33750211491     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.013920     Document Type: Article

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