Mental Disorders in Primary Care

André F. Carvalho, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Translational Psychiatry Research Group at the Faculty of Medicine of Federal University of Ceará (Brazil). He has been elected to the board of councilors of the International Society of Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) and is also the elected vice-chair of the section of private practice psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA). He sits on the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals, including Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. He has served as a peer-reviewer for several leading journals and funding agencies.Roger S. McIntyre is Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at the University of Toronto and Head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. Dr. He is involved in multiple research endeavours which primarily aim to characterize the association between mood disorders, notably cognitive function and medical comorbidity. His works broadly aims to characterize the underlying causes of cognitive impairment in individuals with mood disorders and their impact on workplace functioning. This body of work has provided a platform for identifying novel molecular targets to treat and prevent mood disorders and accompanying cognitive impairment. Roger McIntyre is extensively involved in medical education. He is a highly sought-after speaker at both national and international meetings. He has received several teaching awards from the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry and has been a recipient of the joint Canadian Psychiatric Association

• 1: Bernd Puschner, Markus Kösters, Lea Bouché, and Stefan Weinmann: The epidemiology and burden of mental disorders in primary care 2: Victoria J Palmer and Robert Whitley: Across the spectrum: strategies to improve recognition and treatment of mental disorders in primary care 3: Christina van der Feltz- Cornelis, Harm van Marwijk, and Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen: Collaborative care models for the management of mental disorders in primary care 4: John Furler, Victoria J Palmer, and Jane Gunn: Operationalising patient-centredness to enhance recovery and primary care for mental disorders. 5: Valdimir Maletic and Bernadette DeMuri: Neurobiological aspects of mental disorders 6: Joel Paris: The DSM-5: what should general practitioners know? 7: Markus Dold and Siegfried Kasper: Anxiety disorders in primary care 8: David W. Goodman: ADHD across the lifespan 9: Andrea Feijo Mello and Mary Sau Ling Yeh: Trauma and stressor-related disorders 10: Andrea Fagiolini, Giovanni Amodeo and Giuseppe Maina: Depressive disorders 11: Paulo R. Nunes Neto, Cristiano A. Köhler, Michael Berk, André F. Carvalho: Bipolar disorder 12: Erkki Isometsä: Suicide and suicidal behaviour 13: Alexandra Murray, Anne Toussaint, and Bernd Löwe: Somatic symptom and related disorders 14: Kathleen Broad and Tony P. George: Substance use disorders in primary care settings 15: Jeffrey P. Haibach, Elizabeth A Dinapoli, Deborah S Finnell, John W Kasckow, and Adam J Gordon: Motivational interviewing: its role for the management of mental disorders in primary care 16: Jayashri Kulkarni, Emorfia Gavrilidis, Shainal Nathoo, and Jasmin Grigg: Psychosis 17: Fabian Fußer, Tarik Karakaya, and Johannes Pantel: Late-life depression 18: Fiammetta Cosci and Giovanni Andrea Fava: Psychotherapeutic interventions 19: Sheng-Min Wang and Chi-Un Pae: Major depressive disorder: how to evaluate and manage patients with psychiatric and medical comorbidities? 20: Manu S Sharma, Ives Cavalcante Passos, André F. Carvalho: Untoward side effects of psychiatric drugs 21: Subramoniam Madhusoodanan,Marina Tsoy-Podosenin, Leah R. Steinberg, and Nitin Tandan: Drug interactions involving psychotropic drugs