Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2 , Pages 83-87 , March 2000

The role of gender in mixed mania

  • Lasley M. Arnold

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Lesley M. Arnold, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, PO Box 670559, 231 Bethesda Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0559.
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  • Susan L. McElroy
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  • Paul E. Keck Jr.

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☆ Supported in part by a grant from the Theodore and Vada Stanley Foundation, a program of the National Alliance for the Mentally III Research Institute.

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