Bipolar Depression: Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis and Pharmacotherapy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zarate, Carlos A. (Editor), Manji, Husseini K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Toxicology.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Cytology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cell Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8567-5

Although our knowledge of mood disorders in general is expanding steadily, comparatively little is known about bipolar depression in particular. This book brings together leading clinicians and preclinical and clinical researchers to offer the most up-to-date information about the diagnosis, treatme...

Table of Contents:

• The history of bipolar disorders
• The clinical diagnosis of bipolar depression
• Course and outcome of bipolar disorder <U+0013> focusing on depressive aspects
• Suicide and bipolar disorder
• The genetic basis of bipolar disorder
• Understanding the neurobiology of bipolar depression
• Non-pharmacological treatments and chronobiological aspects of bipolar disorder: implications for novel therapeutics
• Neuroimaging studies of bipolar depression: therapeutic implications
• Pharmacological treatment of acute bipolar depression
• Pharmacological treatment of the maintenance phase of bipolar depression: focus on relapse prevention studies and the impact of design on generalizability
• Non-pharmacological somatic treatments for bipolar depression
• Potential novel treatments for bipolar depression
• Late-onset bipolar disorder
• Treatment of childhood-onset bipolar disorder
• Treatment of bipolar disorder during and after pregnancy
• Conclusion.