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Change of diagnosis to manic-depressive illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

David Horgan
David Horgan*
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
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1Address for correspondence: Dr David Horgan, University Department of Psychiatry, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia.
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Synopsis

In a cohort of patients with an operationally confirmed diagnosis of mania, half of the patients had received a previous diagnosis of schizophrenia, and over one third of the patients had received a diagnosis of personality disorder. Retrospective analysis of case-notes, using operational criteria based on DSM-III, found that manic-depressive illness was more likely to have been the correct previous diagnosis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 1981 , pp. 517 - 523
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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