Citation

Muzina DJ, Colangelo E, Manning JS, Calabrese JR. Cleve. Clin. J. Med. 2007; 74(2): 89, 92, 95-99 passim.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Cleveland Clinic Educational Foundation)

DOI

10.3949/ccjm.74.2.89

PMID

17333635

Abstract

Because patients with bipolar disorder spend more time in the depressed phase than in the manic phase, many receive an incorrect diagnosis of unipolar major depression and receive inadequate or improper treatment for it, leading to a dramatically increased risk of morbidity and suicide. Greater diagnostic accuracy is needed.

Language: en

Keywords

Bipolar Disorder; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major; Diagnosis, Differential; Humans; Lamotrigine; Lithium Compounds; Physicians, Family; Primary Health Care; Triazines; Valproic Acid