What Is a Naturalistic Study of Bipolar Disorder?

A lot of studies by drug companies will do like randomized controlled trials. The effects that you see in the real world for this medication are not nearly as good as what you saw in the randomized controlled trial. So there's a really good trial called step BD, which is a naturalistic study of bipolar disorder. It means that the trial is uncontrolled and that offers some advantages and disadvantages.