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Adjunctive therapies targeting novel pathways can provide wider treatment options and improve clinical outcomes.\n                      <jats:italic>Garcinia mangostana<\/jats:italic>\n                      Linn. (mangosteen) pericarp has serotonogenic, antioxidant anti-inflammatory and neurogenic properties of relevance to the mechanisms of bipolar depression.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0007125025001084_as2\">\n                    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The current 28-week randomised, multisite, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial investigated mangosteen pericarp extract as an adjunct to treatment-as-usual for treatment of bipolar depression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0007125025001084_as3\">\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This trial was prospectively registered on the Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (no. ACTRN12616000028404). Participants aged 18 years and older with a diagnosis of bipolar I or II and with at least moderate depressive symptoms were eligible for the study. A total of 1016 participants were initially approached or volunteered for the study, of whom 712 did not progress to screening, with an additional 152 screened out. Seventy participants were randomly allocated to mangosteen and 82 to a placebo control. Fifty participants in the mangosteen and 64 participants in the placebo condition completed the treatment period and were analysed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"S0007125025001084_as4\">\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Results indicated limited support for the primary hypothesis of superior depression symptom reduction following 24 weeks of treatment. Although overall changes in depressive symptoms did not substantially differ between conditions over the course of the trial, we observed significantly greater improvements for the mangosteen condition at 24 weeks, compared with baseline, for mood symptoms, clinical impressions of bipolar severity and social functioning compared with controls. 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