Psychotic and affective symptoms of early-onset bipolar disorder: an observational study of patients in first manic episode.

CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that disorganization and psychotic symptoms during the first manic episode are salient features in adolescent-onset BD, and that psychotic depression frequently may precede psychotic mania. Nevertheless, differential diagnosis with schizophrenia should be routinely ruled out in cases of early-onset first psychotic episode. PMID: 31576937 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria - September 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fu-I L, Gurgel WS, Caetano SC, Machado-Vieira R, Wang YP Tags: Braz J Psychiatry Source Type: research