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Tips on differentiating unipolar from bipolar depression

By Joseph Goldberg, MD (bio) How do the major depressive episodes of major depressive disorder differ from those of bipolar disorders? Knowing these differences may be helpful to clinicians because it is very important to correctly differentiate between unipolar and bipolar depression. Before discussing any differences, I want to emphasize that, in general, the phenomenological core…

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