Questions answered in this video include:

1. What is bipolar disorder?
2. How prevalent is bipolar disorder?
3. What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder?
4. Do BPD patients display any characteristic behaviours?
5. Are there different subtypes of bipolar disorder?
6. and many more!

Dr. Peter Silverstone, MB, BS, MD, MRC (Psych), FRCPC, is a clinician and professor of psychiatry at the University of Alberta. He is also a talented researcher and Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) scholar. Currently, he is involved in novel bipolar disease-related research, in which changes in the biochemistry of the brain in response to therapeutic interventions are imaged, using cutting-edge MRI imaging techniques.