Over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and disability payments - a link?

A study from Rhode Island Hospital finds patients who were 'over-diagnosed' with bipolar disorder were more likely to have received disability payments and for a longer period of time. The researchers propose a link between these unconfirmed cases of bipolar disorder and the receipt of the payments. Their study and findings are published in the June 2010 edition of the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease...

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