AFFECTIVE-DISORDER IN ADOLESCENCE - ISSUES IN MISDIAGNOSIS

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  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 39 (1), 59-+
Abstract
A young adolescent female [human] with bipolar manic-depressive illness whose behavioral symptomatology was originally attributed to non-affective forms of psychopathology was described. The entire clinical course was reviewed and several factors that could account for diagnostic error were discussed.