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Monday, August 10, 2009

Affective temperaments in alcoholic patients
Alcohol Volume 43, Issue 5, August 2009, Pages 397-404

Ninety-four consecutive responders to treatment alcoholics, 39 with and 55 without psychiatric comorbidity, were compared, regarding affective temperaments, according to the formulation of Akiskal and Mallya, with 50 healthy volunteers displaying the same social characteristics and belonging to the same environment.

The present study shows the main ways in which alcoholics can be distinguished from controls in terms of cyclothymic traits, with a depressive component, and why these characteristics are unrelated to the presence of dual diagnosis.


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