Bipolar episodes decrease brain size, and possibly intelligence

Grey matter in the brains of people with bipolar disorder is destroyed with each manic or depressive episode.

This was the finding of an MRI study of 21 patients with bipolar disorder, a mental illness marked by successive episodes of mania followed by deep depression. The patients’ brains were scanned at either end of a four-year period, during which time each patient had at least one episode and some as many as six.

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Bipolar episodes decrease brain size, and possibly intelligence

Grey matter in the brains of people with bipolar disorder is destroyed with each manic or depressive episode.

This was the finding of an MRI study of 21 patients with bipolar disorder, a mental illness marked by successive episodes of mania followed by deep depression. The patients’ brains were scanned at either end of a four-year period, during which time each patient had at least one episode and some as many as six.

read the story here