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4 - Bipolar Disorder and Its Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2022

Stephen M. Stahl
Stephen M. Stahl
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University of California, San Diego
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A 25-year-old woman has recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, 6 years after her symptoms began. She has had no mood stabilizing treatment in that time. According to the kindling model and allostatic load hypothesis, what progressive pattern of illness would you expect this patient to have exhibited over the course of the last 6 years?

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Stahl's Self-Assessment Examination in Psychiatry
Multiple Choice Questions for Clinicians
 , pp. 107 - 152
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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