Assessment and management of rapid-cycling bipolar affective disorder
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Assessment and management of rapid-cycling bipolar affective disorder
& Pieve (1974). They arbitrarily defined rapid cycling as four or more mood episodes per year. Rapid cycling in relation to bipolar affective disorder has been defined by the DSM-IV criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 1994)(Box 1). Some patients show cycling frequencies in the order of weeks to days, a phenomenon known as ultra-rapid cycling. Cycling of discrete mood phases of less than...
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BACKGROUND Rapid cycling among patients with bipolar affective disorders is important because of its implications for long-term prognosis and for the use of antidepressants. To our knowledge, no prospective study has, as yet, described the course of this phenomenon beyond 5 years. METHODS From 345 patients with bipolar I or bipolar II disorder followed up for a mean (SD) of 13.7 (6.1) years a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.3.6.367