Subthreshold Mood Disorders

Mood Disorders: Clinical Management and Research Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 117-143

  Pini, Stefano ^a   Baldini Rossi, Nicolò ^a,b   Miniati, Mario ^a   Cassano, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

'precursors'; Assessing atypical mood signs symptoms; Bipolar unipolar dichotomy; Mood spectrum approach; Residual depressive symptomatology; SCI MOODSTM; Subthreshold depression; Subthreshold mood disorders; Subthreshold psychopathology and comorbidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889448801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470094281.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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