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Adolescent versus adult onset of mania

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.145.2.221

Patients with adolescent-onset mania at a long-term treatment facility presented with more psychotic symptoms and greater chronicity than adult-onset manic patients. However, the long-term (15-year) outcome of the 35 adolescent-onset patients was comparable to or better than that of the 31 adult-onset patients.

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