Bipolar Disorder

by Yatham, Lakshmi N.; Kutcher, Stanley P.; Kusumakar, Vivek

• ISBN13: 9780415933902
• ISBN10: 0415933900
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bipolar disorder is one of the most common and potentially devastating psychiatric illnesses. This essential text book provides clinicians with an extraordinarily well-balanced and comprehensive overview of rational and research-informed contemporary clinical practice in the assessment and medical management of patients with bipolar disorder. With the advent of a new generation of treatments, there is a resurgence of interest in the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorders. InBipolar Disorders, clinicians who are faced with making choices from a variety of treatments are instructed how to mold their practice around the long-term symptomatic and functional needs of their patients. With a focus on pharmacotherapy, the foundation of symptomatic treatment,Bipolar Disordersprovides the most recent analysis of the data regarding efficacy and safety of medications along with practical guidelines with which treatment choices can be made.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Foreword	xiii
List of Figures	xvii
Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypomania and Mania	1	(16)
Charles L. Bowden
Vivek Kusumakar
Frank P. MacMaster
Lakshmi N. Yatham
Treatment of Bipolar Depression	17	(16)
Lakshmi N. Yatham
Vivek Kusumakar
Stanley P. Kutcher
Diagnosis and Treatment of Rapid Cycling States in Bipolar Disorder	33	(26)
Susan L. McElroy
Paul E. Keck, Jr.
Maintenance Therapies in Bipolar Affective Disorder	59	(26)
William H. Coryell
Bipolar Disorder in Young People, the Elderly, and Pregnant Women	85	(30)
Vivek Kusumakar
Frank P. MacMaster
Stanley P. Kutcher
Kenneth I. Shulman
Bipolar Disorder and Comorbid Axis I Disorders: Diagnosis and Management	115	(24)
Carlos A. Zarate, Jr.
Mauricio F. Tohen
Lithium in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder	139	(28)
Joseph Levine
Jair C. Soares
K. N. Roy Chengappa
Samuel Gershon
The Role of Atypical Neuroleptics in Bipolar Disorder	167	(16)
Roy H. Perlis
A. Eden Evins
Gary S. Sachs
Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder: A Review of Efficacy	183	(18)
Karen Saperson
L. Trevor Young
Anticonvulsants in Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: A Review of Efficacy	201	(40)
Lakshmi N. Yatham
Vivek Kusumakar
Somatic Treatments for Bipolar Disorder	241	(24)
Raymond W. Lam
Anthanasios P. Zis
A. Dooley Goumeniouk
Psychotropic Medications in Bipolar Disorder: Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, Drug Interactions, Adverse Effects, and Their Management	265	(44)
Terence A. Ketter
Po W. Wang
Xiaohua Li
Index	309