caa a22 4500 388096179 CHVBK 20180307125304.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1092852900011755 doi S1092852900011755 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1092852900011755 The Current Course of Mood Disorders: A 3-Year Follow-Up [Elektronische Daten] The aim of this study was to evaluate the natural course of mood disorders in 157 patients admitted consecutively to the Dipartimento di Psichiatria, Neurobiologia, Farmacologia e Biotecnologie at Pisa University for an affective or schizoaffective episode and followed for 3 years. During the follow-up, three patients committed suicide and three died of natural causes. The three suicide patients were diagnosed as suffering from a depressive episode deriving from Bipolar I disorder. Of the remaining 104 patients, 42% had no relapses, 35% had up to three relapses, and 23% had more than three relapses; there were no significant differences between these three groups. In conclusion, recent treatments seem able to reduce the length and number of relapses in patients with mood disorders. The hyperthymic temperament seems to be a characteristic of compliant patients and a predictor of a good response to treatment. The mortality rate connected with somatic or accidental causes appears to be similar to that of the general population, while the rate of suicide is higher. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Lenzi Alessandro Lazzerini Fabrizio Marazziti Donatella CNS Spectrums Cambridge University Press 4/5(1999-05), 77-82 1092-8529 4:5<77 1999 4 CNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900011755 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1092852900011755 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lenzi Alessandro NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lazzerini Fabrizio NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marazziti Donatella NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- CNS Spectrums Cambridge University Press 4/5(1999-05), 77-82 1092-8529 4:5<77 1999 4 CNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge