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Bipolar II and anxious reactive "comorbidity": toward better phenotypic characterization suitable for genotyping.
Journal of affective disorders - 1 Dec 2006
Akiskal Hagop S, Akiskal Kareen K, Perugi Giulio, Toni Cristina, Ruffolo Giuseppe, Tusini Giuseppe
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: In DSM-IV, bipolar II (BP-II) disorder is defined by depression and hypomania. There is little appreciation of affective instability, often associated with anxiety-particularly panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDA)-comorbidity. This association has genetic-familial implications, which we believe must be incorporated in refining the BP-II phenotype suitable for genotyping purposes. METHOD: We examined in...
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