Citation

Dakhlaoui O. Inf. Psychiatr. 2009; 85(3): 267-273.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, John Libbey Eurotext)

DOI

10.1684/ipe.2009.0460

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Our study comes forward to distinguish the unipolar disorders from the bipolar ones on both clinical features and course. This is a retrospective study in which100 in-patients were included. It revealed that bipolar patients have more abrupt beginning of the illness and more hypersomnia. On the other hand unipolar patients differs in terms of mood episode length which is significantly higher, of agitation and of suicide attempts frequency. In fact the age at the onset of bipolar disorder is earlier than that of unipolar disorder. The number of mood episodes were higher among bipolar group and intervals between mood episodes were better. Our results corroborate findings about bipolar and unipolar differences. It becomes necessary to identify unipolar from bipolar depression in order to give the best treatment and improve our patient's prognostic.

Language: fr

Keywords

Major depression; Bipolarity; Clinical; Recurrent depression