Clinical characteristics and long-term response to mood stabilizers in patients with bipolar disorder and different age at onset

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 399-404

  Dell'Osso, Bernardo ^a   Buoli, Massimiliano ^a   Riundi, Riccardo ^b   D'Urso, Nazario ^a   Pozzoli, Sara ^a   Bassetti, Roberta ^b   Mundo, Emanuela ^a   Altamura, A Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age at onset (AAO); Bipolar disorder; Long term treatment; Mood stabilizers

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; LITHIUM; MOOD STABILIZER; OLANZAPINE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MANIA; ONSET AGE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 70449704964     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s5970     Document Type: Article

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