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Historically, the first note on polarity was made in the early 1960s when Leonhard reported that 17.9 % of patients had a manic and 25.6 % had a depressive predominant polarity, while the rest of the patients had similar occurrence of the two poles. However, the concept was formulated by Jules Angst.

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