Professor Michael Berk is a NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon Health. He is Past President of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders and heads major research initiatives including the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for the Development of Innovative Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders (CREDIT) and the Mental Health Adult General Trial Network (MAGNET), Australia's first mental health clinical trials network. He has published over 1400 papers and has received multiple awards including but not limited to the RANZCP Senior Research Award in 2021 and in 2024 the Australian Mental Health Prize. He is listed by Thompson Reuters as amongst the world's most influential scientific minds.

Today we discuss Bipolar Affective Disorders Type 1 and Type 2.

Some additional resources for this podcast:

1. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2018 Mar;20(2):97-170. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12609. Epub 2018 Mar 14. PMID: 29536616; PMCID: PMC5947163. (Due to be updated in 2025)
2. Non-canonical pathways in the pathophysiology and therapeutics of bipolar disorder. Front Neurosci. 2023 Aug 1;17:1228455. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1228455. PMID: 37592949; PMCID: PMC10427509.

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