Clinical and environmental risk factors for bipolar disorder: Review of prospective studies

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 1-7

  Marangoni, Ciro ^a   Faedda, Gianni L ^b,c   Baldessarini, Ross J ^d  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Lucio Bini Mood Disorders Center   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Comorbidity; Predictors; Prodrome; Prospective; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYCLOTHYMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POVERTY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUBSYNDROMAL DEPRESSION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85047825519     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000161     Document Type: Review

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