Highlights from the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Conference Posters and Presentations, Chicago, June 22-25, 2023

Graeme Preston reported on the brain of autopsied bipolar patients having increased aspartate and citrulline, while those with unipolar depression had decreases in the TCA cycle.

He saw increases in acetyl carnitine in manic bipolar patients versus bipolar depressed patients, which is of interest in relationship to the putative antidepressant effects of acetyl-L-carnitine in animal models of depression and in humans.

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