The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

In Memoriam: Hagop Akiskal and the Bipolar Spectrum

03.15.2021 - By Pocket Psychiatry: A Carlat PodcastPlay

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DSM-5 has adopted many of the concepts from Hagop Akiskal’s Bipolar Spectrum, but not in the way he had planned. Here we trace his thinking back to the early 1970’s, when Dr. Akiskal reshaped the way we think about depression by blurring the boundary between stress-induced and biological depression.

Published On: 3/15/2021

Duration: 26 minutes, 19 seconds

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