Implementing the DSM-5

Professor Trisha Suppes talks us through the changes between DSM IV and DSM-5; the new specifier for mania with depressive symptoms (MwD), the choice of bipolar symptoms to include and what other factors she thinks would aid bipolar diagnosis.

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