Bipolar Disorders

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.