Understanding Early Age of Onset: a Review of the Last 5 Years

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2016, Pages

  Carlson, Gabrielle A ^a   Pataki, Caroly ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Admixture analysis; Bipolar; High risk; Mania; Outcome; Prodrome

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FAMILY HISTORY; FREQUENCY; HERITABILITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MENTAL INSTABILITY; ONSET AGE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME;

EID: 84994807304     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-016-0744-8     Document Type: Review

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