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Substance-use disorders are common among people with bipolar disorder

Whereas symptomatic recovery is common after mood disturbances, functional recovery is less common, even years afterwards.

Some people with bipolar disorder can experience many relapses of mood episodes in the course of their illness

Progression of bipolar disorder is thought to involve progressive neurobiological changes

The polarity index allows clinicians to visualise the place of various medications along the continuum of bipolar disorder treatment

In people with bipolar disorder, the peak age of onset was 19.5 years old.