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Study data from Italian National Institute of Health provide new insights into psychiatry

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 25th, 2008

A report, 'Symptom structure of acute mania: a factor study of the 24-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale in a national sample of patients hospitalized for a manic episode,' is newly published data in Journal of Affective Disorders. According to recent research from Rome, Italy, "Despite increasing interest in dimensional psychopathology and the use of symptom clusters in clinical research, factor analytic studies of mania are rare. Most studies included not only manic patients, but also patients with a mixed episode or other severe mental disorders."

"We aimed at further elucidating the symptom structure of manic states. As part of a national survey of acute...

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