Bipolar mixed episodes: characteristics and comorbidities.
Goldberg JF, McElroy SL.Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17960958
Bipolar mixed episodes is a mental health condition where a person has symptoms of depression and mania at the same time.
Dr Joseph Goldberg describes how bipolar mixed episodes are associated with greater total lifetime costs, increased suicide risk, and increased substance misuse than pure manic episodes.
Dr Goldberg found that bipolar mixed episodes were associated with abnormally low cholesterol
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