Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:1576-1578
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Duration and symptoms of bipolar prodromes
G Molnar, MG Feeney and GA Fava
Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Buffalo.
The duration and symptoms of manic and depressive prodromes of 20 bipolar
patients showed much interindividual variation. However, these features
were consistent in successive episodes of the same type in the same
patient. Manic prodromes were longer than depressive prodromes.