Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and early-onset bipolar disorder: Two facets of one entity?

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-72

  Zepf, Florian D ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; CBCL PBD profile; Genetics; Imaging; Neurochemistry; Pediatric bipolar disorder

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MANIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; AGING; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS;

EID: 65249189371     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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