Hypomanic symptoms in female undergraduate students diagnosed with unipolar depression based on scores on the hypomania checklist

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 22-25

  Richardson, Thomas ^a   Garavan, Hugh ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bipolar Disorder; Hypomania Checklist; Hypomanic; Undergraduate Students; Unipolar Depression

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649776548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17450179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1745017900905010022     Document Type: Article

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