Background: There is a lack of controlled studies of psychological treatment of cyclothymic
disorder. The aim of this investigation was to examine the benefits of the sequential …

Kraepelin had a modern vision of affective illness. He hypothesized that affective
recurrences arose from enduring dispositions of depressive, cyclothymic, irritable, or …

BACKGROUND: Classical authors had hypothesized that affective temperaments represent
the subclinical manifestations of mood disorders: in particular, cyclothymic and hyperthymic …

Background Although a better understanding of the prodromes of affective disorders in youth
has important clinical and research implications, empirical data are still unconclusive …

The diagnosis of cycloid psychosis has a long tradition in European psychiatry. However, it
has been poorly assimilated within the DSM IV and ICD-10 diagnostic systems. Leonhard …

Background: Whereas a growing body of evidence suggests that cycloid psychoses have to
be separated from schizophrenic psychoses, their relations to bipolar affective disorder are …

This article reviews the concept, nosological status, diagnostic features, associated clinical
characteristics, and the etiopathological variables involved in cycloid psychosis. The …

Background. Despite its clinical relevance, the diagnosis of cycloid psychosis has been
relatively neglected in the psychiatric literature and in the current nosological systems. This …

Background Cyclothymic temperament (CT) is an affective disposition often preceding
bipolar disorder (BD), and is the most common affective temperament in patients with BD. In …

The past 25 years has witnessed significant advances in our knowledge of Bipolar Spectrum
Disorders (BPSD) in youth. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies are clarifying the …