Bipolar disorder does not increase risk of violent crime

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 07:00 in Psychology & Sociology

A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet suggests that bipolar disorder - or manic-depressive disorder - does not increase the risk of committing violent crime. Instead, the over-representation of individuals with bipolar disorder in violent crime statistics is almost entirely attributable to concurrent substance abuse...

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