Mette Ungermann Fredskild
What have the recent changes in the diagnostic criteria for mania meant for patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Mette Ungermann Fredskild will spend the next ten months investigating this question when she takes up her position at Stanford University in California with the support of the Lundbeck Foundation.
Focus on new criteria for bipolar disorder
Mette is one of five medical students who have been accepted into our DARE programme (Danish American Research Exchange) this year, and she has therefore flown across the Atlantic to conduct research alongside some of the world's most talented researchers. Her project will be based on an international database of 907 patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The research project is highly topical and may contribute to the international debate that has arisen in the wake of changes in the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder.
Mette is a medical student at the University of Copenhagen.