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Significance of mixed features in acute mania
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
Comprehensive Psychiatry
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
We studied a group of 23 manic patients to ascertain the prognostic significance of mixed affective features. Eight patients (34.8%) presented with a mixed manic state. This mixed state correlated with a longer hospitalization and significantly worse disposition outcome. In the light of previous conceptual models the authors speculate about the meaning of DSM-III defined mixed bipolar disorder.