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How to Diagnose Bipolar Disorder

November 5, 2021

Gordon Parker, MD, PhD, DSc. Scientia Professor of psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. In 2002 he founded the Black Dog Institute, a clinical research center for mood disorders. Dr. Parker’s research has focused on the phenomenology and diagnosis of depression and bipolar disorder. Dr. Parker has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Gordon Parker takes on the DSM and offers up a practical approach to diagnosing bipolar disorder. Included is a new self-rated scale that Dr. Parker developed to separate normal good moods from hypomania.

Psychopharmacology in Bipolar II

March 9, 2020

Tammas Kelly, MD

Tammas Kelly, MD

Psychiatrist in private practice in Fort Collins, CO. Author of The Art and Science of Thyroid Supplementation for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression (2018) Dr. Kelly has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Bipolar II is a different illness from Bipolar I, but it’s in Bipolar I that most of the psychopharmacology research was undertaken. Dr. Kelly walks us through some of the nuances in applying that knowledge to Bipolar II, and shows us how to recognize the subtle traces of hypomania and mixed features that go along with Bipolar II depression.

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