Problems diagnosing bipolar disorder in clinical practice

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1019-1021

  Zimmerman, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; BORDERLINE STATE; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77954205191     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.64     Document Type: Editorial

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