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A06 - Enhancing symptom monitoring in early affective disorders: exploring the trajectory from bipolar at-risk to bipolar disorder through intense sampling

Irina Falkenberg, Julia Martini, Andrea Pfennig

The precise characterization of the risk phase in bipolar disorder is essential for its prognosis and treatment. Project A06 investigates specific precursors of the transition from risk to established illness in a multimodal and longitudinal manner among 150 at-risk individuals. This includes the collection of clinical, neurobiological, and environmental risk parameters (i) at defined time points; (ii) continuously; and (iii) intensified during symptom changes, allowing for the description of the course of risk and resilience factors with unprecedented accuracy.