In this video, Professors Lakshmi Yatham, MD., and Christoph Correll, MD. discuss the challenges of differentiating bipolar depression, unipolar depression, depression with mixed features, schizophrenia, and schizoaffective disorder.

Professor Christoph U Correll, MD.
The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, USA. Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Department of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Berlin, Germany.

Professor Lakshmi N. Yatham, MD.
Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Institute of Mental Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Regional Head of Psychiatry and Regional Program Medical Director for Mental Health and Addictions at Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Healthcare.
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