Diagnostic reliability of the history of hypomania in bipolar II patients and patients with major depression

摘要: Records of patients who had been systematically evaluated at the Center for Anxiety and Depression were reviewed. Included in this report are records a diagnosis bipolar II or unipolar affective disorder as determined by one authors also underwent Structured Clinical Interview DSM-III (SCID). A second study was undertaken with L.K.T. observing clinical interview D.L.D. both clinicians making patient. There reasonable diagnostic agreement between SCID disorder. Twelve 34 clinically diagnosed unipolar. These 12 failed to demonstrate factors, which could help explain difference diagnosis. excellent on presence absence hypomania, comparing two clinicians. The underestimates condition that can be reliably trained make This finding has some implications DSM-IV, where there is proposal inclusion parallel entity