[What is the burden associated with bipolar depression?].
Intensity and frequency of the thymic symptoms are specific of the clinical picture of bipolar disorder patients. International classifications, don't take into account polarity as an operational criteria. Despite the lack of a consensual definition of polarity, close to 2/3 of the patients can be considered as having a predominant depressive form. Polarity can be considered as idiosyncratic of a patient and could be the preferential mode of evolution. Identification of the polarity of the disorder has interests in terms of prognosis and choice of treatment.
AP-HP, groupe hospitalier Henri Mondor, pôle de psychiatrie, Créteil, France. bruno.etain@inserm.fr
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D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018692:Antimanic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D016651:Lithium Carbonate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011379:Prognosis; D012917:Social Adjustment; D059020:Suicidal Ideation
D000927:Anticonvulsants; D018692:Antimanic Agents; D016651:Lithium Carbonate