To be or not to be a bipolar disorder patient: Problems with diagnosis

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 435-437

  Mazza, Marianna ^a   Di Nicola, Marco ^a   Janiri, Luigi ^a   Bria, Pietro ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

bipolar disorder; borderline; Overdiagnosis; underdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DSM-IV; DSM-IV-TR; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS;

EID: 84877305993     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182901de0     Document Type: Article

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