Thought disorder in euthymic bipolar patients: A possible endophenotype of bipolar affective disorder?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 857-860

  Osher, Yamima ^a,b   Bersudsky, Yuly ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Endophenotype; Neuropsychology; Rorschach; Thought disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; THOUGHT DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HOSPITALIZATION; ISRAEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RORSCHACH TEST; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 38449083657     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318156832d     Document Type: Article

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