Clinical Focus Therapy Update

A GP guide to managing bipolar disorder

Here’s the latest thinking on how to manage patients with this complex condition
29th May 2019
By Professor Philip Mitchell

The ‘hallmark’ characteristic of bipolar disorder is the occurrence of circumscribed episodes of opposing extremes (or ‘poles’) of mood— namely, hypo/mania and depression — with a reversion to normal mood and behaviour between such phases.

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