A pilot study of standardized treatment in geriatric bipolar disorder. |
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| Authors: | Ariel G Gildengers Benoit H Mulsant Amy E Begley Mary McShea Jacqueline A Stack Mark D Miller Andrea Fagiolini David J Kupfer Robert C Young Charles F Reynolds |
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| Affiliation: | Intervention Research Center for Late-Life Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, the Bipolar Disorder Center for Pennsylvanians, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 15213, USA. |
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| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine the feasibility of treating elderly adults with bipolar disorder under standardized-treatment conditions. METHODS: Thirty-one patients age 60 and older with bipolar disorder were treated in standardized pathways. Mood state was checked at each study visit with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression-17 item (Ham-D-17) and the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS). RESULTS: Defining "well days" as both Ham-D and YMRS scores of
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