Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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1 paper

Depression and Mania in Bipolar Disorder

Leonardo Tondo, Gustavo H Vázquez, Ross J Baldessarini
PubMed Central (PMC) Summary & key facts 2017 167 citations

Researchers reviewed records from 1,130 people with bipolar disorder seen at a mood-disorders center. They found that depressive episodes lasted much longer than manic episodes, and that episode length was similar across bipolar subtypes (BD-I, BD-II, mixed, or with psychosis). The authors say this pattern — more and longer depressions…

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