AUG 24, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hair as a window to mood disorders: Discrimination of bipolar affective disorder using mapping spectroscopy.
Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
This is a proof-of-concept spectroscopic study with no sample size reported, no clinical validation, no comparator performance data, and no independent replication—it raises mechanistic and diagnostic questions rather than answering them.
Reported
Spectra per hair segment30
Hair segment length0.5 cm