Is the term, bipolar disorder, a diagnostic dinosaur? Should we just light a match to the DSM right now and start over?

I just returned from the National NAMI convention in Chicago, where, at one session in particular - Emerging Technologies to Improve Care - I found myself scribbling very fast into my notepad. The reason had less to do with emerging technologies and more to do with how our new understanding of the brain is rendering the bipolar diagnosis obsolete. As one of the presenters -...