Level of functioning in hypomania of bipolar II disorder.

نویسنده

  • Franco Benazzi
چکیده

According to the DSM-IV-TR, hypomania in bipolar II disorder (BD II) must not display marked impairment of functioning, compared with mania, and the change in functioning may be increased or decreased without reporting which is more common (1). Because of the marked impairment of functioning criterion, the DSM-IV-TR’s unclear boundary between mania and hypomania can lead to misclassification (that is, symptoms are the same, apart from psychosis). If the change in functioning in hypomania were more of ten increased, the difference between mania and hypomania could be clarified.

متن کامل
منابع مشابه

The Differential Levels of Inflammatory Cytokines and BDNF among Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

OBJECTIVE Emerging evidence suggests that inflammation and neurodegeneration underlies bipolar disorder. To investigate biological markers of cytokines and brain-derived neurotrophic factor between bipolar I, bipolar II, and other specified bipolar disorder with short duration hypomania may support the association with inflammatory dysregulation and bipolar disorder and, more specifically, prov...

متن کامل

Reliability and validity of a Brazilian version of the Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) compared to the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ).

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorders are often not recognized and undertreated. The diagnosis of current or past episodes of hypomania is of importance in order to increase diagnostic certainty. The Hypomania Checklist-32 is a self-applied questionnaire aimed at recognizing these episodes. As part of the international collaborative effort to develop multi-lingual versions of the Hypomania Checklist-32, ...

متن کامل

The Evaluation of Anxiety, Depression and Global Assessment of Functioning in Bipolar Patients at Manic and Mixed Episodes

Background and Aims: This research is carried out with the aim of comparing anxiety, depression and global assessment of functioning between two groups of bipolar patients at mixed and manic episodes. Methods: Using an analytical cross-sectional approach, a sample of 94 patients with mean age of 32 years old (Standard Deviation: 11.3), who had been categorically diagnosed with bipolar disorder ...

متن کامل

Caregiving burden and psychological distress among spouses of bipolar patients - comparative analysis of subtype I and II.

AIM To assess the level of caregiving burden and psychological distress among spouses of bipolar disorder - BD (type I and II) patients. METHODS 77 subjects (41 women and 36 men) were enrolled in the study - 44 spouses of bipolar I (BD I) patients and 33 spouses of bipolar II (BD II). The whole group was divided into 4 subgroups: (I) the wives of BD I patients: n=27, (II) the husbands of BD I...

متن کامل

Validating antidepressant-associated hypomania (bipolar III): a systematic comparison with spontaneous hypomania (bipolar II).

BACKGROUND According to DSM-IV and ICD-10, hypomania which occurs solely during antidepressant treatment does not belong to the category of bipolar II (BP-II). METHODS As part of the EPIDEP National Multisite French Study of 493 consecutive DSM-IV major depressive patients evaluated in at least two semi-structured interviews 1 month apart, 144 (29.2%) fulfilled the criteria for bipolar II wit...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من

ذخیره در منابع من قبلا به منابع من ذحیره شده

{@ msg_add @}


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

متن کامل
عنوان ژورنال:
  • Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie

دوره 49 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004