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Bipolar affective disorder and gender
Dias, Rodrigo da Silva; Kerr-Corrêa, Florence; Torresan, Ricardo Cezar; Santos, Carlos Henrique R. dosAlthough the bipolar disorder (BD) occurs almost with the same frequency in both genders, the phenomenology and the outcome of the illness differ between them. Nevertheless, there is evidence that women with BD show, more than men, delayed beginning, especially in their fifth decade, more rapid cycling outcome, more depressive episodes, more dysphoric mania, more mixed states and more BD type II. Even so, the f...
Date: 2006
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