Mixed Affective States: Beyond Current Boundaries, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Alan C. Swann and Gabriele Sani, is entitled Mixed Affective States: Beyond Current Boundaries. This issue is one of four each year selected by our series consulting editor, Dr. Harsh Trivedi of Sheppard Pratt Health System. Topics in this issue include: Clinical pictures of mixed states and its relation to temperament and personality; Psychopathology of mixed states; Unipolar agitated depression; Mixed features in mood disorders: the unmet needs of DSM-5; Trauma and mixed states; Suicidal acts and ideations in mixed states; Mixed states in early onset-bipolar disorder; Mixed states during the different phases of the reproductive cycle in women; Mixed states in patients with substance and behavioral addictions; Neurobiology of mixed states; Behavioral sensitization as a mechanism underlying and integrating mixed states; Pharmacological treatments of mixed states; ECT treatment of mixed states; and Innovative treatments including neuromodulation and psychotherapy.