Recurrent Mood Disorders

Etiologic Aspects.- Toward a Psychobiology of Affective Recurrences: Interaction of Biological and Psychological Factors.- New Genetic Findings in Recurrent Mood Disorders.- Recent Findings on Thyroid Function in Depression.- Cognitive Aspects of Depression: An Experimental Study.- Variability of Cognitive Patterns in Subjects with Mood Disorder.- Personality and Depression.- Aggressive Behaviour and Hostility in Depression: Clinical Aspects.- Course and Outcome.- Course as Classifier for Depression.- Course and Outcome: Definitional Dilemmas.- Bipolar Disorders in Prepubertal Children.- Bipolar Disorder in Adolescence.- Diagnosis, Clinical Assessment, and Treatment of Late-Life Depression.- Recurrent Major Depression: Catamnestic Evaluation of Inpatients.- Psychotic Mixed State: Clinical-Anamnestic and Familial Comparisons with Nonpsychotic Mixed, Psychotic Manic, and Schizoaffective Disorders.- Heterogeneity of Course and Outcome in Subjects with a Cross-Sectional Diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder.- Old and New Treatments and Prophylaxis.- Testing Efficacy and Safety of Long-Term Treatment in Manic-Depressive Illness: Past and Present Problems.- The Prophylaxis of Unipolar Depression.- Maintenance Therapies in Recurrent Depression: Psychotherapy and Combined Treatment.- Lithium Treatment: Relationship Between Relapses and Personality Disorders.- Effects of Lithium on Information Processing: Evidence from Partial Responders and Nonresponders.- Chronic Lithium Salt Treatment and Calcium Metabolism.- Amiloride and Severe Lithium-Induced Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus.- New Pharmacological Aspects of Rubidium Salts.- Rubidium - 20 Years On.- Biochemical and Physiological Guidelines for Long-Term Rubidium Therapy.- Rubidium Shows Different Effects from Lithium on Phosphatidylinositol Metabolism in a Cell Line of Human Neuroblastoma.- Influences of Rubidium and Lithium on Cyclic AMP Formation in Rat Brain.- Electrolytes, Renal Function, and Rubidium Chloride Therapy

Current evidence indicates that over two-thirds of mood disorders pursue a recurrent or chronic course. Yet much of the progress recorded in the field of mood disorders and their treatment has been in research into the acute phase of the illness. Hence there is a need for a volume that specifically addresses the special clinical problems encountered in the recurrent forms of these disorders.