What Is the Role for Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder?

In this episode, Joseph Goldberg, MD, and Greg Mattingly, MD, discuss the role of antidepressants in bipolar disorder. They review use of newer antidepressants (eg, vortioxetine, vilazodone) for bipolar depression despite lack of large, formal studies for that indication, the safety/efficacy of antidepressants for bipolar II vs bipolar I, antidepressant monotherapy in bipolar II depression, ketamine/esketamine for bipolar depression, and discuss the role for an antidepressant for bipolar depression in the absence of mixed features.  

Podcast from Clinical Care Options (CCO) with Joseph Goldberg, MD, and Greg Mattingly, MD, on the role of antidepressants in bipolar disorder.

Presenters:

Joseph Goldberg, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Greg Mattingly, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri
President
St Charles Psychiatry Associates
St Charles, Missouri  

Link to full program:
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