The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast

The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast


In Memoriam: Hagop Akiskal and the Bipolar Spectrum

March 15, 2021

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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