GENDER DIFFERENCE IN RESOLUTION OF MANIA

Gender differences are being increasingly reported across psychiatric disorders. Females are known to be more at risk for developing unipolar depressive disorders. In bipolar disorder there is more dysphoria, rapid cycling and more number of depressive episodes in females. However studies on gender...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ratanendra, Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad, Chakrabarti, Nandini, Baruah, Sanjib, Sinha, V.K.
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407936
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author Kumar, Ratanendra
Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad
Chakrabarti, Nandini
Baruah, Sanjib
Sinha, V.K.
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Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad
Chakrabarti, Nandini
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Sinha, V.K.
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description Gender differences are being increasingly reported across psychiatric disorders. Females are known to be more at risk for developing unipolar depressive disorders. In bipolar disorder there is more dysphoria, rapid cycling and more number of depressive episodes in females. However studies on gender difference in resolution are scarce. This study was conducted in Central Institute of Psychiatry to assess the gender difference in resolution of mania. 24 males and 16 females were rated at day 0, 3, 7, 14, 21 & 28 on scale for Manic States, ft was found that males settled faster than females, which was evident at day 14. The rate of resolution was more in males in the first week. Remission was also reached earlier by males.
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spelling pubmed-29577132011-03-15 GENDER DIFFERENCE IN RESOLUTION OF MANIA Kumar, Ratanendra Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad Chakrabarti, Nandini Baruah, Sanjib Sinha, V.K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Gender differences are being increasingly reported across psychiatric disorders. Females are known to be more at risk for developing unipolar depressive disorders. In bipolar disorder there is more dysphoria, rapid cycling and more number of depressive episodes in females. However studies on gender difference in resolution are scarce. This study was conducted in Central Institute of Psychiatry to assess the gender difference in resolution of mania. 24 males and 16 females were rated at day 0, 3, 7, 14, 21 & 28 on scale for Manic States, ft was found that males settled faster than females, which was evident at day 14. The rate of resolution was more in males in the first week. Remission was also reached earlier by males. Medknow Publications 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC2957713/ /pubmed/21407936 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kumar, Ratanendra
Sinha, Baxi Neeraj Prasad
Chakrabarti, Nandini
Baruah, Sanjib
Sinha, V.K.
GENDER DIFFERENCE IN RESOLUTION OF MANIA
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title_short GENDER DIFFERENCE IN RESOLUTION OF MANIA
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407936
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