Psychiatry Research
Volume 169, Issue 2 , Pages 159-163 , 30 September 2009

Personality trait predictors of bipolar disorder symptoms

  • Lena Catherine Quilty

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • ,
  • Martin Sellbom

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Jennifer Lee Tackett

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • ,
  • Robert Michael Bagby

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Department, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1R8. Tel.: +1 416 535 8501x6939; fax: +1 416 260 4125.

Received 29 February 2008 ,Revised 3 July 2008 ,Accepted 12 July 2008.

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PII: S0165-1781(08)00224-2

doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.07.004

Psychiatry Research
Volume 169, Issue 2 , Pages 159-163 , 30 September 2009

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