Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 21-27 , 1 October 2004

Clinical features related to age at onset in bipolar disorder

  • Carrie L. Ernst

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Joseph F. Goldberg

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. At the time of writing, affiliation was Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Bipolar Disorders Research Clinic, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Clinic, New York, NY, USA. Tel.: +1-718-470-4134; fax: +1-718-343-1659.
    • Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, 75-59 263rd Street, Glen Oaks, NY 11004, USA

Received 11 February 2003 ,Accepted 1 October 2003.

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PII: S0165-0327(03)00258-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2003.10.002

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 21-27 , 1 October 2004

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