Here's the deal though; even if they *are* current on where the research is, or even participating in it; they are very unlikely to take a patient off the street and run them up into the research study. It presents very large liability issues with little likely gain in outcome.

In addition, when they order expensive testing that the insurance companies know provide very little benefit, those doctors and facilities get dinged on their compensation, and can eventually get booted off of a network.

Now, if you can pay cash, let me suggest something. Concierge medicine. These are MD/DO's who do not take ANY insurance of any sort, you generally write a check up front as a retainer type deal. They can order imaging, and you will have to pay cash for it too, and THAT is extremely expensive. But doable. You can get those tests, and have them read. So there is a path to what I think you are looking for, but I do not think you will get what you want in the end.

And the reason is simple...

"bipolar" has no biologically testable definition. Period.

For now, we have a list of symptoms, and some sets of interventions that mitigate those symptoms. And that is all.