Clinical Course of Children and Adolescents With Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
Archives of General PsychiatryPublished 1 February 2006
Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, Michael Strober, Mary Kay Gill, Sylvia Valeri, Laurel Chiappetta
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Youths with BP spectrum disorders showed a continuum of BP symptom severity from subsyndromal to full syndromal with frequent mood fluctuations, and preliminary validation for BP-NOS is provided.
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Youths with BP spectrum disorders showed a continuum of BP symptom severity from subsyndromal to full syndromal with frequent mood fluctuations. Results of this study provide preliminary validation for BP-NOS.
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