Managing Bipolar Depression and Mixed Presentations

This presentation on managing bipolar depression and mixed presentations reviews the dimensional continuum of mood disorder presentations from unipolar to bipolar disorder, evidence supporting the use and limitations of mood-stabilizing drugs and second-generation antipsychotics for the treatment of unipolar and bipolar depression, limitations of monoaminergic antidepressants in bipolar depression and major depression with mixed features, and evidence-based patient treatment plans based upon patient and disease state-specific characteristics.