Sensation seeking in major depressive patients: relationship to sub-threshold bipolarity and cyclothymic temperament
- Fornaro, Michele
- Ventriglio, Antonio
- De Pasquale, Concetta
- Pistorio, Maria Luisa
- De Berardis, Domenico
- Cattaneo, Carlo Ignazio
- Favaretto, Ettore
- Martinotti, Giovanni
- Tomasetti, Carmine
- Elassy, Mai
- D'Angelo, Emanuela
- Mungo, Sergio
- Del Debbio, Alessandro
- Romano, Anna
- Ciampa, Giovanni
- Colicchio, Salvatore
Publication date
January 2013
DOI Publisher
Elsevier BV ISSN
0165-0327 Citation count (estimate)
11Abstract
High levels of sensation seeking (SS) have been traditionally reported for lifetime bipolar disorder (BD) and/or substance use disorder (SUD) rather than major depressive disorder (MDD). Nonetheless, a renewed clinical attention toward the burden of sub-threshold bipolarity in MDD, solicits for a better assessment of "unipolar" major depressive episodes (MDEs) via characterization of putative differential psychopathological patterns, including SS and predominant affective temperament
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