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Blurred boundaries in diagnostic criteria present a challenge to optimal treatment
Author(s) -
Guy Goodwin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.342
Subject(s) - biopsychosocial model , bipolar disorder , theme (computing) , psychology , psychiatry , broad spectrum , psychotherapist , computer science , chemistry , cognition , combinatorial chemistry , operating system
Early, accurate diagnosis may hold the key to achieving significant improvements in the prospects for patients with bipolar disorder. However, the broad characterisation of the bipolar phenotype to encompass bipolar spectrum and bipolar not otherwise specified (NOS) makes differential diagnosis more challenging. These issues were among those explored at the 13th Latest Advances in Psychiatry Symposium held in London in March, which took biopsychosocial approaches to psychiatry as its overarching theme. Steve Titmarsh reports.