Is bipolar disorder overdiagnosed?

Finally, I brought up the issue of tardive dyskinesia being consistent with bipolar disorder based on my many years researching tardive dyskinesia and extra-pyramidal symptoms. I found a higher occurrence of movement disorders in patients with bipolar disorder than in those with schizophrenia.

I welcome Dr. Zimmerman’s disagreement on diagnostic issues and hope that he sees that the faculty’s diagnostic formulations were driven by the historical facts in the presented cases as well as research findings, not due to any other reason or motive. All of the participants would have given the same diagnostic discussion to our medical students and residents on any morning rounds.

Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Editor-in-Chief