Journal article
Psychiatric and clinical correlates of rapid cycling bipolar disorder: a cross-sectional study
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:: Rapid cycling (RC) is a feature of bipolar disorder (BD) that has been associated with worse outcome and more severe disability. Our goal was to investigate the association of demographic and clinical factors with RC.
METHODS:: We compared RC and non-rapid cycling (NRC) BD patients from the Brazilian Research Network in Bipolar Disorder (BRN-BD) regarding age at onset of BD; total number of episodes; previous number of manic, …
Authors
Gigante AD; Barenboim IY; da S. Dias R; Toniolo RA; Mendonça T; Miranda-Scippa Â; Kapczinski F; Lafer B
Journal
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 270–274
Publisher
EDITORA SCIENTIFIC
DOI
10.1590/1516-4446-2015-1789
ISSN
1516-4446