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Bipolar in the Future - The DSM-5 Task Force Weighs In

On Wednesday, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 Task Force released the draft to the new DSM, available for viewing and comment on the APA website.The new version of the DSM, scheduled for publication in 2013, would supersede the current DSM-IV, in effect since 1994 but little changed from the ground-breaking DSM-III of 1980.A... Read moreChevron
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The Bipolar Spectrum

The term, manic-depression, was coined by the pioneering diagnostician, Emil Kraepelin, back in the early twentieth century. There is a common misconception that manic-depression is simply the old fashioned term for bipolar disorder, but Kraepelin applied that term to plain vanilla depression, as well.In Kraepelin's mind, depression and what we... Read moreChevron

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