Epidemiology of bipolar disorder

Handbook of Bipolar Disorder: Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 21-35

  Rihmer, Zoltan ^a   Angst, Jules ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

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