Is there a continuity between bipolar and depressive disorders?

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 70-76

  Benazzi, Franco ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Bipolar II disorder; Depressive mixed state; Major depressive disorder; Mixed depression

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUOXETINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MANIA; MEDLINE; MOOD DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; SEX RATIO;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 33846416950     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097965     Document Type: Article

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