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Treatment of bipolar depression.

Dubovsky SL

Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo, 462 Grider Street, Buffalo, NY 14215, USA. Dubovsky@buffalo.edu

This article discusses current practices in the treatment of bipolar depression. In the absence of more definitive research, the treatment of bipolar depression is guided by clinical experience and expert opinion, and sometimes by marketing and popular trends, as much as it is by hard data. Considering the limitations of current knowledge is an essential component of the scientific practice of psychiatry.

Published 13 April 2005 in Psychiatr Clin North Am, 28(2): 349-70, vii.
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