Staging model raises fundamental questions about the nature of bipolar disorder.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder.Bipolar disorders · 2018
   Guideline
2. Disease progression in bipolar disorder in relation to white matter microstructure: A comprehensive approach based on staging models.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025
   Article
3. Consensus on nomenclature for clinical staging models in bipolar disorder: A narrative review from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Staging Task Force.Bipolar disorders · 2021
   Review
4. Between wellness, relapse, and remission: Stages of illness in anorexia nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2020
   Article
5. Does stage of illness influence recovery-focused outcomes after psychological treatment in bipolar disorder? A systematic review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2019
   Article
6. Classification of patients with bipolar disorder using k-means clustering.PloS one · 2019
   Observational
7. Modifiable and non-modifiable factors associated with functional impairment during the inter-episodic periods of bipolar disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2018
   Observational
8. Staging, Neurocognition and Social Functioning in Bipolar Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018
   Article
9. Concepts and misconceptions regarding clinical staging models.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2016
   Article

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Abstract

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