Distinguishing affective depersonalization from anhedonia in major depression and bipolar disorder

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-192

  Mula, Marco ^a   Pini, Stefano ^a   Calugi, Simona ^a   Preve, Matteo ^a   Masini, Matteo ^a   Giovannini, Ilaria ^a   Rucci, Paola ^b   Cassano, Giovanni B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DEPERSONALIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPERSONALIZATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEASURE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY;

EID: 75249100940     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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