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. 2022 Aug;24(5):559-563.
doi: 10.1111/bdi.13187. Epub 2022 Feb 20.

Faecal microbiota transplantation for bipolar disorder: A detailed case study

Gordon Parker  1 , Michael J Spoelma  1 , Nicholas Rhodes  1
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Faecal microbiota transplantation for bipolar disorder: A detailed case study

Gordon Parker et al. Bipolar Disord. 2022 Aug.
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Daily ratings of depression (blue) and hypomania (orange) for the patient starting from the first day of FMT. Scores range from absent (0) to slight (1) and to mild (2) only and quantified by the participant as distinctly less severe than pre‐FMT mood severity. Measurements were taken on 470 consecutive days from 22nd September 2020 until 4th January 2022.
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