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0521835178 - Bipolar Disorders - Mixed States, Rapid-Cycling, and Atypical Forms - Edited by Andreas Marneros and Frederick K. Goodwin
Table of Contents


Contents

List of contributorspage  vii
Prefacexi
1

Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania

Andreas Marneros and Frederick K. Goodwin

1
2

Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective

Giulio Perugi and Hagop S. Akiskal

45
3

Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder

Omar Elhaj and Joseph R. Calabrese

61
4

Bipolar I and bipolar II: a dichotomy?

Eduard Vieta, M. Reinares, and M. L. Bourgeois

88
5

Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders

Jules Angst, Alex Gamma, Vladeta Ajdacic, Dominique Eich, Lukas Pezawas, and Wulf Rössler

109
6

Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum

Franco Benazzi

131
7

Agitated depression: spontaneous and induced

Athanasios Koukopoulos, Gabriele Sani, Matthew J.  Albert, Gian Paolo Minnai, and Alexia E. Koukopoulos

157
8

Schizoaffective mixed states

Andreas Marneros, Stephan Röttig, Andrea Wenzel, Raffaela Blöink, and Peter Brieger

187
9

Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder?

Andreas Marneros, Frank Pillmann, Stephan Röttig, Andrea Wenzel, and Raffaela Blöink

207
10

Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents

Boris Birmaher and David Axelson

237
11

Atypical features of bipolarity in old age

Kenneth I. Shulman

252
12

Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders

Peter Brieger

263
13

Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorder

Kathleen Merikangas and Kelly Yu

277
14

Biological aspects of rapid-cycling and mixed states

Heinz Grunze and Jörg Walden

311
15

The treatment of bipolar mixed states

John Cookson and Saad Ghalib

324
16

The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups : of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic

Robert W. Baker, Leslie M. Schuh, and Mauricio Tohen

353
17

Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder

Gary Sachs and Mandy Graves

369
Index386

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