Presenting Depression: Identifying and Treating Mood Disorders

All Sessions Will Be Held in Eastern Time (ET)

When a patient presents with symptoms of depression, it is often the case that there is additional symptomatology that falls outside of the DSM-5 categorical diagnosis of major depressive disorder. It is now widely accepted that the syndrome of depression may fall anywhere along the spectrum of mood disorders, including bipolar I and II (BPI and BPII) and depressive mixed states (DMX). Additionally, symptoms of bipolar spectrum disorders may overlap or co-occur with symptoms of other psychiatric conditions, such as anxiety or ADHD. To further complicate matters, the symptom presentation of bipolar spectrum disorders typically differs between stages of development and may also vary greatly from one mood episode to the next throughout the disease course. During this half-day program, leading experts will use case-based examples to help clinicians sort through the many faces of bipolar spectrum disorders so that accurate and timely differential diagnoses can be made and evidence-based treatment strategies can be employed.