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Unipolar–bipolar disorder : clinical features and course comparison. About 100 tunisian in-patients |
l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 85, Number 3, 267-73, mars 2009, Question ouverte
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Author(s) : Olfa Dakhlaoui, Myriam Larguèche, Hend Elloumi, Fakhreddine Haffani |
Summary : Our study comes forward to distinguish the unipolar disorders from the bipolar ones on both clinical features and course. This is a retrospective study in which100 in-patients were included. It revealed that bipolar patients have more abrupt beginning of the illness and more hypersomnia. On the other hand unipolar patients differs in terms of mood episode length which is significantly higher, of agitation and of suicide attempts frequency.In fact the age at the onset of bipolar disorder is earlier than that of unipolar disorder. The number of mood episodes were higher among bipolar group and intervals between mood episodes were better.Our results corroborate findings about bipolar and unipolar differences. It becomes necessary to identify unipolar from bipolar depression in order to give the best treatment and improve our patient’s prognostic. |
Keywords : bipolarity, clinical, major depression, recurrent depression |
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