Author: Marneros, Andreas ; & Goodwin, Frederick K. ; editors:
Title: Bipolar Disorders: Mixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. orig.boards. 26x18cm, xi, 395 pp.. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes: Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania; Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective; Rapid cycling bipolar disorder; Bipolar I and Bipolar II: a dichotomy?; Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders; Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum; Agitated depression, spontaneous and induced; Schizoaffective mixed states;Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder?; Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents; Atypical features of bipolarity in old age; Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders; Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorders; Biological aspects of rapid cycling and mixed states; The treatment of bipolar mixed states; The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic; Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder.

Keywords: Bipolar Disorder, Manic-depressive, Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Depression, Affective Disorders, Physiopathology, Psychology, Depressive