Results
manic, depressive, depression, Depression, irritability, Sleep disturbances
Sleep disturbances, assessed by “difficulty with sleep” (Children’s Depression Rating Scale, Revised [CDRS-R] item 4) and “decreased need for sleep” (Young Mania Rating Scale [YMRS] item 4), and “irritability” (CDRS-R item-8, YMRS item 5) were identified as “bridge” symptoms and found to have replicable causal associations with depressive (CDRS-R total) and manic symptom clusters (YMRS total) at baseline and week-6. A greater improvement in overall depression severity at week 6 with lurasidone (