Mood Disorders

Sudhakar Selvaraj is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Louis A. Faillace, M.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. Paolo Brambilla is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Milan and Director of the Psychiatric Clinic at Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan in Italy. Jair C. Soares is Professor and Chairman of the Louis A. Faillace, M.D. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Pat R. Rutherford, Junior Chair in Psychiatry at the McGovern Medical School and Executive Director at Harris County Psychiatric Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.

'Though some chapters are highly technical, the majority can be consumed by an audience with experience reading peer-reviewed biology or psychology journal articles. The book is therefore appropriate for clinicians, researchers, professionals in the health care industry, and students at the graduate and upper undergraduate levels who are interested in mental health … Recommended.' K. Feigenson, CHOICE

• Preface Sudhakar Selvaraj, Paolo Brambilla and Jair C. Soares; Part I. General: 1. Brain imaging methods in mood disorders Sudhakar Selvaraj, Paolo Brambilla and Jair Soares; Part II. Anatomical Studies: 2. Neuroanatomical findings in unipolar depression and the role of the hippocampus Danilo Arnone; 3. Neuroanatomical findings in bipolar disorder Colm MacDonald and Giulia Tronchin; 4. Neuroimaging biomarkers in pediatric mood disorders Manpreet Singh, Mary Melissa Packer and Whitney Tang; Part III. Functional and Neurochemical Brain Studies: 5. Brain imaging of reward dysfunction in unipolar and bipolar disorders Poornima Kumar, Yueyi Jiang and Alexis E. Whitton; 6. Resting state functional connectivity in unipolar depression Gong QY and Ziqi Chen; 7. Functional connectome in bipolar disorder Amit Anand and Jungwon Cha; 8. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigations of bioenergy and mitochondrial function in mood disorders Perry Renshaw and Brent M. Kious; 9. Imaging glutamatergic and GABAergic abnormalities in mood disorders Rodrigo Machado-Viera, Estêvão Scotti-Muzzi, Maria Concepcion Garcia Otaduy and Márcio Gerhardt Soeiro-de-Souza; 10. Neuroimaging brain inflammation in mood disorders Jeffery Meyer; Part IV. Novel Approaches in Brain Imaging: 11. Imaging genetic and epigenetic markers in mood disorders Francesco Benedetti, Sara Poletti, Elena Mazza and Benedetta Vai; 12. FMRI neurofeedback as treatment for depression David Linden and Leon Skottnik; 13. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy studies in mood disorders Koji Matsuo and Toshio Matsubara; 14. Electrophysiological biomarkers for mood disorders Raymond Cho, Nithya Ramakrishnan, Nicholas Murphy and Sudhakar Selvaraj; 15. Magnetoencephalograhy (MEG) studies in mood disorders Allison Nugent; 16. An overview of machine learning applications in mood disorders Benson Mwangi, Natasha Topolski and Su Hyun Jeong; Part V. Therapeutic Applications of Neuroimaging in Mood Disorders: 17. Effects of lithium on brain structure in bipolar disorder Philip Szeszko, Jasmine Kaur and Vivian Kafantaris; 18. Molecular imaging of dopamine and antipsychotics in bipolar disorder Sameer Jauhar; 19. Neuroimaging studies of effects of psychotherapy in depression Prof Philip Cowen, Beata R. Godlewska and Sudhakar Selvaraj; 20. Imaging the effects of psychotherapy in mood disorders Thomas Meyer and Isabelle Bauer.