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Affective disorder in adolescence: issues in misdiagnosis
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
|January 1, 1978
Abstract:
This case report describes a young adolescent female with bipolar manic-depressive illness, (MDI), whose behavioral symptomatology was originally attributed to non-affective forms of psychopathology. We review her entire clinical course to date and elucidate several factors that may account for diagnostic error.