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Resistant Bipolar Disorder
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 January 2018
Abstract
A 66-year-old farmer's wife had been admitted 31 times over eight years, suffering from manic depression. A variety of treatments for depressive episodes led to hypomania, and a case conference was held to discuss treatment.
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