Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 184-189 , May 2003

Externalizing disorders in consecutively referred children and adolescents with bipolar disorder

  • Gabriele Masi

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Gabriele Masi, MD, IRCCS Stella Maris Via dei Giacinti 2, 56018, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy
    • IRCCS Stella Maris, Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy
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  • Cristina Toni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, and Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Carrara-Pisa, Italy
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  • Giulio Perugi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, and Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Carrara-Pisa, Italy
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  • Maria Chiara Travierso

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Pisa, and Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Carrara-Pisa, Italy
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  • Stefania Millepiedi

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS Stella Maris, Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy
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  • Maria Mucci

      Affiliations

    • IRCCS Stella Maris, Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, Calambrone, Pisa, Italy
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  • Hagop S Akiskal

      Affiliations

    • International Mood Center, Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Diego and Veterans Administration Medical Center, La Jolla, CA, USA

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PII: S0010-440X(03)00002-6

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00002-6

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 3 , Pages 184-189 , May 2003

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