Depression diagnoses following the identification of bipolar disorder: costly incongruent diagnoses

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Previous research has documented that the symptoms of bipolar disorder are often mistaken for unipolar depression prior to a patient's first bipolar diagnosis. The assumption has been that once a patient receives a bipolar diagn...

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Main Authors: Schultz Jennifer F, Stensland Michael D, Frytak Jennifer R
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-06-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/10/39