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Four-year prospective outcome and natural history of mania in children with a prepubertal and early adolescent bipolar disorder phenotype.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 May 2004
Geller Barbara, Tillman Rebecca, Craney James L, Bolhofner Kristine
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BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of child mania has been contentious. OBJECTIVE: To investigate natural history and prospective validation of the existence and long-episode duration of mania in children. DESIGN: Four-year prospective longitudinal study of 86 subjects with intake episode mania who were all assessed at 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, and 48 months. The phenotype was defined as DSM-IV bipolar I disorder (manic or mixed)...
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