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01-04-2010 | Meeting abstract
Evaluation of functionality in families with a member diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Author:
Maria-Silvia Trandafir
Published in:
Annals of General Psychiatry
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Special Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
Affective disorders represent a pathology with cronic, recurent character, in a continuous growth which affect different categories of population causing serious socio- economical desinsertion and expensive costs The notion of "maniac-depressive psychosis" was used for the first time by Krepelin in 1913, in the German region. K. Leonhard and Scandinavic Psychiatry and later on Angst and Peris differentiate the notions of "mono-unipolar and bipolar psychosis" …