Data emerging from both academic centers and from public and private outpatient facilities
indicate that from 20% to 50% of all subjects that seek help for mood, anxiety, impulsive and …

Background: Contrary to DSM-5 definition based on recurrence of low grade hypomanic and
depressive symptoms, cyclothymia is better defined in a neurodevelopmental perspective as …

Cyclothymic disorder is a subtype of bipolar disorder included in the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 1980, but largely neglected in research …

OBJECTIVE: While there is an increasing recognition of the role of subthreshold
symptomatology in bipolar disorder, little attention has been dedicated to its only formally …

Chronic affective disorders have generated much interest during the past decade due to
increasing recognition of their clinical importance and because of controversy about their …

Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Psychopharmacology Program,
McLean Division of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass., and b International …

Cyclothymic disorder is characterized by short cycles of hypomanic and depression
symptoms which do not reach diagnostic thresholds for major mood disorders. Diagnostic …

Rates based on clinical and recent epidemiologic studies suggest that cyclothymia
uncomplicated by major affective episodes occurs in 3–4% of young adults. Although this …

OBJECTIVE: The relationship between anxiety and impulsivity is controversial and not well
explored. In a previous study we compared impulsivity, measured by different rating tools, in …

BACKGROUND: Four subtypes of bipolar disorder (BP)–bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia and
bipolar not otherwise specified (NOS)–are defined in DSM-IV-TR. Though the diagnostic …