Bipolar Disorders

D.O.B. 22 October 1946.

'This is a very useful reference for those dealing with patients with atypical features of bipolarity. The authors have done an excellent job of presenting the difficult to treat but commonly prevalent forms of bipolar disorder.' Doody's Reviews

• Preface; 1. Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania Andreas Marneros and Frederick K. Goodwin; 2. Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective Giulio Perugi and Hagop S. Akiskal; 3. Rapid cycling bipolar disorder Omar Elhaj; 4. Bipolar I and Bipolar II: a dichotomy? Eduard Vieta, M. Reinares and M. L. Bourgeois; 5. Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders Jules Angst, Alex Gamma, Vladeta Ajkacic, Dominique Eich, Lukas Pezawas and Wulf Rössler; 6. Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum Franco Benazzi; 7. Agitated depression, spontaneous and induced Athanasios Koukopoulos, Gabriele Sani, Matthew J. Albert, Gian Paolo Minnai and Alexia E. Koukopoulos; 8. Schizoaffective mixed states Andreas Marneros, Stephen Röttig, Andrea Wenzel, Raffaela Blöink and Peter Brieger; 9. Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder? Andreas Marneros, Frank Pillmann, Stephen Röttig, Andrea Wenzel and Raffaela Blöink; 10. Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents Boris Birmaher and David Axelson; 11. Atypical features of bipolarity in old age Kenneth I. Shulman; 12. Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders Peter Brieger; 13. Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorders Kathleen Merikangas and Kelly Yu; 14. Biological aspects of rapid cycling and mixed states Heinz Grunze and Jörg Walden; 15. The treatment of bipolar mixed states John Cookson and Saad Ghalib; 16. The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic Robert W. Baker, Leslie M. Schuh and Mauricio Tohen; 17. Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder Gary Sachs and Mandy Graves; Index.