Pharmacological treatment and staging in bipolar disorder: evidence from clinical practice

Objectives:Staging models for medical diseases are widely used to guide treatment and prognosis. Bipolar disorder (BD) is a chronic condition and it is among the most disabling disorders in medicine. The staging model proposed by Kapczinski in 2009 presents four progressive clinical stages of BD. Ou...

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Main Authors: Pedro D. Goi, Joana Bücker, Mireia Vianna-Sulzbach, Adriane R. Rosa, Iria Grande, Ines Chendo, Leonardo A. Sodré, Marcia Kauer-Sant'Anna, Leonardo Silveira, Mauricio Kunz, Keila M. Ceresér, Clarissa S. Gama, Raffael Massuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2015-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462015000200121&lng=en&tlng=en