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The available MRI literature indicates that specific structural brain abnormalities are already present in first-episode bipolar patients. These do not overlap with those emerging from previous meta-analyses performed in patients with chronic BD. These findings support the hypothesis of different patterns of changes in brain morphology over the time course of bipolar disorder.
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