Paul Saladino· MD
it turns out that you know in the last several years I lumped those disorders together and I lumped them together for scientific reasons so we actually have a lot of evidence now that those disorders are in fact probably the same disorder but they're on a spectrum so there was this group of researchers at multiple sites there are some of the best researchers that we have in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder they got together to like once and for all test all these people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and figure out what is different about them and they did genetic studies they neuroimaging studies they did Iggy's they did all these kind of batteries of questionnaires they looked at their family members they looked at blood they looked at levels of inflammation they I mean they did every test they could think of and at the end of all that research millions of dollars spent from the federal government to figure out once and for all what is different about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder nothing they couldn't tell the difference there was no marker no biological marker that separated the groups by diagnostic category