This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 2nd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour .

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The primacy of mania

Athanasios Koukopoulos

Centro Lucio Bini Roma

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 2nd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 17–20 November 2005

Annals of General Psychiatry 2006, 5(Suppl 1):S5doi:10.1186/1744-859X-5-S1-S5

Published:	28 February 2006

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The cercle of Falret's Follie Circulaire was constituted by a period of mania, one of melancholia and by an intervalle lucide. Subsequently, circular mood disorders have been the focus of increasing attention and research, but the issue of a possible intrinsic link between the phases of the manic-depressive cycle has never been investigated. The general assumption is that mania and depression are manifestations of two different phases of the same process without questioning whether one of the phases gives rise to the other.