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Standard vs. High Doses: Rethinking Bipolar Maintenance Treatment

Standard vs. High Doses: Rethinking Bipolar Maintenance Treatment

Update: 2025-09-28
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In this episode, we challenge the conventional wisdom of "what gets them well keeps them well" by exploring groundbreaking Finnish research on bipolar disorder medication dosing. Does maintaining patients on high doses actually improve long-term outcomes, or could standard doses be the optimal strategy for relapse prevention?

Faculty: Kristin Raj, M.D.
Host: Richard Seeber, M.D.

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Standard vs. High Doses: Rethinking Bipolar Maintenance Treatment

Standard vs. High Doses: Rethinking Bipolar Maintenance Treatment