DSM-V: modifying the postpartum-onset specifier to include hypomania
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Verinder Sharma , Vivien K. Burt
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2010
Description
By failing to include it under the rubric of the postpartum-onset specifier, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV-TR has ignored the clinical reality that childbirth is a potent trigger of hypomania. Given the serious and occasionally tragic consequences of misdiagnosis of bipolar II depression as unipolar depression in the postpartum period, it is argued that DSM-V should consider modifying the postpartumonset specifier to include episodes of hypomania.
Arch Womens Ment Health (2011) 14:67–69 Received: 22 January 2010 / Accepted: 9 September 2010 / Published online: 25 September 2010 # The Author(s) 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
