Incidence and signficiance of mixed affective states in a bipolar population.
Incidence and signficiance of mixed affective states in a bipolar population.
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双相人群中混合情感状态的发生率和重要性。
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1976
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通讯作者:
D. Kupfer
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J. Himmelhoch;D. Mulla;J. Neil;T. Detre;D. Kupfer
The simultaneous existence of manic and depressive symptoms in a manic-depressive patient was first described by Kraepelin. This so-called mixed state has come to have much theoretical significance in recent hypotheses about the nature of bipolar affective disorders. In this investigation a mixed state is shown to be the initial episode in 31% of 84 manic-depressive outpatients. Moreover, the presence of "mixed" features does not correlate with severity of illness or mood circularity, but does correlate with sedative abuse and poor response to psychopharmacologic treatment. These results suggest that the "continuum hypothesis" and its satellite theories represent viable conceptualizations of the nature of manic-depressive illness.