Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 78, Issue 1 , Pages 1-9 , January 2004

On the periodicity of manic-depressive insanity, by Eliot Slater (1938): translated excerpts and commentary

  • Godehard Oepen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, UAB School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
    • International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478-9106, USA
    • ,
  • Ross J. Baldessarini

      Affiliations

    • International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478-9106, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478-1906, USA. Tel.: +1-617-855-3203; fax: +1-617-855-3479.
    • ,
  • Paola Salvatore

      Affiliations

    • International Consortium for Bipolar Disorder Research, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Bipolar and Psychotic Disorders Program, McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478-9106, USA
    • Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Parma, Parma, Italy

Received 15 March 2002 ,Accepted 15 August 2002.

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doi: 10.1016/S0165-0327(02)00359-2

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 78, Issue 1 , Pages 1-9 , January 2004

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