Clinician’s Digest: CANMAT and Mixed States Practicalities

CANMAT presents a spectrum approach to mixed states. In this podcast, Dr. Jim Phelps delves into this and the DSM-5 approach, where mixed states became a specifier that can be added to a diagnosis of unipolar depression, effectively creating a spectrum approach to the diagnosis of mixed mood disorders. So, what’s a clinician to do treatment-wise? Should we or should we not use antidepressants when 4 specific symptoms are present? Find the answer to these and other questions in this podcast. Faculty: Jim Phelps, M.D. Host: Richard Seeber, M.D. Learn more about our membership here Earn 0.5 CMEs: Quick Take Vol. 52 Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Recommendations for the Management of Patients With Bipolar Disorder With Mixed Presentations