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Podcast: PsychEd: Educational Psychiatry Podcast
Episode: Psyched Episode 3 b): Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder (Depression) with Dr. Ariel Shafro
Description: Welcome to PsychEd, the psychiatry podcast for medical learners, by medical learners. This episode covers the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in ther depressive episodes, and a phenomenon termed "episodes with mixed features", with guest Dr. Ariel Shafro, a staff psychiatrist at Trillium Health Partners. Bipolar disorder is an illness characterized by manic and depressive episodes; patients in fact spend more time in a depressed state than a manic state. The criteria for diagnosing a bipolar depression is the same as unipolar depression (or major depressive disorder). When patients present with a depressive episode, it is im...