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Familial comorbidity of bipolar disorder and multiple sclerosis: genetic susceptibility, coexistence or causal relationship?
Behavioural neurology - 1 Jan 2012
Kosmidis Mary H, Bozikas Vasilis P, Giannouli Vaitsa, Karavatos Athanasios, Fokas Konstantinos
Abstract excerpt
Our purpose in undertaking the present study was to examine the hypotheses proposed for explaining the frequent comorbidity of bipolar disorder and multiple sclerosis. One hypothesis posits that, when there is comorbidity, MS plays a causal role in psychiatric manifestations. Another suggests that both disorders have a common underlying physiological process that increases the likelihood of their co-occurrence....
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