The bipolar spectrum--the shaping of a new paradigm in psychiatry.

[1] Akiskal HS(1987)Criteria for the "soft" bipolar spectrum: treatment implications Psychopharmacol Bull 23 68-73

[2] Mallya G(1976)Heritable factors in the severity of affective illness Biol Psychiatry 11 31-42

[3] Dunner DL(1982)A family study of schizoaffective, bipolar I, bipolar II, unipolar and control probands Arch Gen Psychiatry 39 1157-1167

[4] Gershon ES(1993)Bipolar II: the most common bipolar phenotype Am J Psychiatry 150 901-903

[5] Goodwin FK(1998)The emerging epidemiology of hypomania and bipolar II disorder J Affect Disord 50 143-151

[6] Gershon ES(1998)The prevalence of major depressive and bipolar disorders in Hungary: results from a national epidemiologic survey J Affect Disord 50 153-162

[7] Hamovit J(2000)Re-evaluating the prevalence of and diagnostic composition within the broad clinical spectrum of bipolar disorders J Affect Disord 59 5-30

[8] Guroff JJ(2000)Diagnosing bipolar disorder and the effect of antidepressants: a naturalistic study J Clin Psychiatry 61 804-808

[9] Simpson SG(1998)Systematic clinical methodology for validating bipolar-II disorder: Data in mid-stream from a French national multisite study (EPIDEP) J Affect Disord 50 163-173

[10] Folstein SE(1993)Diagnostic reliability of the history of hypomania in bipolar II patients and patients with major depression Compr Psychiatry 34 303-307

[1] Akiskal HS(1987)Criteria for the "soft" bipolar spectrum: treatment implications Psychopharmacol Bull 23 68-73

[2] Mallya G(1976)Heritable factors in the severity of affective illness Biol Psychiatry 11 31-42

[3] Dunner DL(1982)A family study of schizoaffective, bipolar I, bipolar II, unipolar and control probands Arch Gen Psychiatry 39 1157-1167

[4] Gershon ES(1993)Bipolar II: the most common bipolar phenotype Am J Psychiatry 150 901-903

[5] Goodwin FK(1998)The emerging epidemiology of hypomania and bipolar II disorder J Affect Disord 50 143-151

[6] Gershon ES(1998)The prevalence of major depressive and bipolar disorders in Hungary: results from a national epidemiologic survey J Affect Disord 50 153-162

[7] Hamovit J(2000)Re-evaluating the prevalence of and diagnostic composition within the broad clinical spectrum of bipolar disorders J Affect Disord 59 5-30

[8] Guroff JJ(2000)Diagnosing bipolar disorder and the effect of antidepressants: a naturalistic study J Clin Psychiatry 61 804-808

[9] Simpson SG(1998)Systematic clinical methodology for validating bipolar-II disorder: Data in mid-stream from a French national multisite study (EPIDEP) J Affect Disord 50 163-173

[10] Folstein SE(1993)Diagnostic reliability of the history of hypomania in bipolar II patients and patients with major depression Compr Psychiatry 34 303-307