title: Should bipolar disorder treatment be modified depending on staging?
authors.affiliation: a Bipolar Disorder Program and Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , Porto Alegre , RS , Brazil.|b Graduation Program in Psychiatry and Department of Psychiatry , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre , RS , Brazil.
authors.forename: Ives Cavalcante
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Passos
authors.affiliation: b Graduation Program in Psychiatry and Department of Psychiatry , Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) , Porto Alegre , RS , Brazil.|c Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences , McMaster University , Hamilton , Canada.
authors.forename: Flávio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kapczinski
keywords: Staging; bipolar disorder; cognitive impairment; functional impairment; treatment refractoriness