Abstract: Although bipolar disorder (BD) often presents in young adulthood, most individuals experience recurrent mood episodes, psychosocial deficits and high utilization of health services that persist into later life.1 Bipolar depression represents the predominant and least successfully treated phase of this illness. Individuals with BD spend more time ill with depressive symptoms than with manic/hypomanic or with cycling/mixed symptoms,2-4 and the proportion of time spent in depressive episodes to time spent in manic episodes increases with age. The ...
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Topics: 
Psychiatry
Gerontology