Psychiatria pre prax 2/2014

Bipolar disorder in DSM-5

Review brings a selection of most substantial informations about bipolar disorder diagnosis according to new DSM-5 classification. Against the DSM-IV-TR is the essential change creating items of “mixed features“ and an “anxious distress“ which allow a closer specification of manic, hypomanix and major depressive episode. Another valuable clinical changes in classification of bipolar disorder in DSM-5 were not establish.

Keywords: bipolar disorder, DSM-5, mixed features, anxious distress.