Citation

Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry 2014; 18(4): 30-32.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014)

DOI

10.1002/pnp.342

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Early, accurate diagnosis may hold the key to achieving significant improvements in the prospects for patients with bipolar disorder. However, the broad characterisation of the bipolar phenotype to encompass bipolar spectrum and bipolar not otherwise specified (NOS) makes differential diagnosis more challenging. These issues were among those explored at the 13th Latest Advances in Psychiatry Symposium held in London in March, which took biopsychosocial approaches to psychiatry as its overarching theme. Steve Titmarsh reports. © 2014 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

Language: en

Keywords

human; suicide; bipolar disorder; major depression; bipolar depression; mood disorder; maternal mortality; early intervention; article; differential diagnosis; early diagnosis; priority journal; psychiatric diagnosis; borderline state; puerperal psychosis; diagnostic accuracy; bipolar I disorder; bipolar II disorder; DSM-IV; ICD-10; bipolar mania; puerperium; DSM-5