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This book is written by international specialists on bipolar disorders. All fields of this topic are covered: the history and the evolution of concepts of bipolar disorders from ancient Greece to modern times. Original quotations of Hippocrates and Aretaeus of Cappadocia, the views of the European founders of modern psychiatry, and modern operational and biological data are considered. The role of personality, temperament, interactions, as well as of neurotransmitter, endocrinological factors and other biological parameters are extensively discussed together with genetic and epidemiological findings. Topics such as 'soft spectrum disorders', mixed states, schizoaffective bipolars, and long-term prognosis are extensively considered, and the role of modern antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers is another main point of the book. Special aspects of children, adults, and women's disorders are also discussed. The costs of treatment of bipolar disorders are described in their own chapter. In this book can be found a combination of the classical use in literature of bipolar disorders with modern data-oriented use.

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Author:   A. Marneros ,  Jules Angst
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2000
Weight:   0.846kg
ISBN:  

9789048155675

ISBN 10:   9048155673
Pages:   483
Publication Date:   09 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Bipolar disorders: roots and evolution.- The soft bipolar spectrum: footnotes to Kraepelin on the interface of hypomania, temperament and depression.- The mixed bipolar disorders.- Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder.- Bipolar schizoaffective disorders.- Bipolar disorders during pregnancy, post partum and in menopause.- Adolescent-onset bipolar illness.- Bipolar disorder in old age.- Temperament and personality types in bipolar patients a historical review.- Interactional styles in bipolar disorder.- Comorbidity in bipolar affective disorder.- The genetic epidemiology of bipolar disorder.- Genetics of bipolar affective disorder.- The biology of bipolar disorder.- Cyclicity and manic-depressive illness.- Bipolar shifts as disorders of the bi-hemispheric integration of language: implications for the genetic origins of the psychotic continuum.- Mood stabilizers in bipolar disorder.- Antipsychotics in acute mania.- Antidepressant treatment of bipolar depression.- The prognosis of bipolar disorders: course and outcome.- The costs of treatment of bipolar disorder.- Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: Unifying the concept of psychosis through brain morphology.- On entities and continuities of bipolar disorders.

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