title: Treating the bipolar spectrum mixed states: a new rating scale to diagnose them.
abstract: The mixed states are the most serious clinical state in the bipolar spectrum, having the major risk of sucidality among all sub-types of the spectrum. The aim of this study is to help diagnosis and treatment of the patients having bipolar disorder mixed state, giving to psychiatrists and physicians a new efficacy rating scale focusing on this illness.
authors.affiliation: "Psychiatric Studies Center" (Cen.Stu.Psi.), Piazza Portici,11, 25050 Provaglio d'Iseo (BS), Italy, dr.tavormina.g @libero.it.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tavormina