Open AccessCourse of insight in manic episode
Author(s) -
Ajay Kumar,
Sudhir Kumar,
Khan Nm,
Satyasis Mishra
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/0022-3859.118035
Subject(s) - medicine , medline , psychiatry , law , political science
Insight is an important factor associated with non compliance and poor outcome. Poor level of insight has been described as a characteristic in patients with acute bipolar disorder with more unawareness in social consequences with increasing severity in manic episode.