TY - JOUR AU - Herane-Vives, Andrés AU - Arnone, Danilo AU - de Angel, Valeria AU - Papadopoulos, Andrew AU - Wise, Toby AU - Alameda, Luis AU - Chua, Kia-Chong AU - Young, Allan H. AU - Cleare, Anthony J. PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/05 TI - Cortisol levels in unmedicated patients with unipolar and bipolar major depression using hair and saliva specimens JO - International Journal of Bipolar Disorders SP - 15 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Differentiating between unipolar and bipolar depression can be clinically challenging, especially at first presentation. Patterns of cortisol secretion could aid diagnostic discrimination in affective disorders although there has been little comparative research to date. In this study, we investigated acute (saliva) and chronic (hair) cortisol levels concurrently in unmedicated unipolar and bipolar disorders by using conventional diagnostic criteria and self-report measures. SN - 2194-7511 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40345-020-0180-x DO - 10.1186/s40345-020-0180-x ID - Herane-Vives2020 ER -