Mdedge Psychcast

Martha Sajatovic, MD, conducts a Masterclass lecture on older-age bipolar disorder from the Psychopharmacology Update in Cincinnati. The meeting was sponsored by Global Academy for Medical Education and Current Psychiatry. Dr. Sajatovic is professor of psychiatry and of neurology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She also directs the Neurological and Behavioral Outcomes Research Center at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. *  *  *  Help us make this podcast better! Please take this short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/podcastsurveyOct2019 *  *  *  Conceptualizing OABD Older–age bipolar disorder (OABD), defined as a person aged 60 years or older with bipolar disorder, makes up one-quarter of bipolar patients. It is a heterogeneous population that includes early- and late-onset disease. Late onset is diagnosed when a person has a manic or hypomanic episode at or after the age of 50 years. Bipolar depression in later life has long been seen as a “special population,”