Bipolar Depression: Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis and Pharmacotherapy

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Zarate, Carlos A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Manji, Husseini K. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Σειρά: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cell Biology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Bipolar depression: Clinical phenotype and course of illness
• The history of bipolar disorders
• The clinical diagnosis of bipolar depression
• Course and outcome of bipolar disorder — focusing on depressive aspects
• Suicide and bipolar disorder
• Bipolar depression: Neurobiology
• 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
• Acute and long-term treatment of bipolar disorder
• 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
• Treatment of bipolar disorder in special populations
• Late-onset bipolar disorder
• Treatment of childhood-onset bipolar disorder
• Treatment of bipolar disorder during and after pregnancy
• Conclusion.