Dr. Roy Perlis answers the question: 'Bipolar Disorder & 'Regular' Depression?' — -- Question: How is bipolar disorder different from unipolar depression or 'regular' depression? Answer: Both ...

Psychiatrists and psychologists argued for a reclassification of most mood disorders based on how often they recur rather than the particular symptoms of each disease. Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns ...

Most clinicians are aware of the need to distinguish between bipolar and unipolar disorders when evaluating a depressed patient. However, the evaluation of bipolarity is usually confined to trying to ...

It is well-proven that cannabis use is associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia and heavy use of high-THC marijuana is associated with four times the normal rate of schizophrenia (see my ...

You have to laugh. The current stand-off between the American Psychiatric Association, that sponsors the DSM series, and the National Institute of Mental Health, that sponsors scientific psychiatry, ...