Bipolar Disorder

Ives Cavalcante Passos, MD, PhD is a professor of psychiatry at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil. He completed his postdoctoral research on neuroscience and artificial intelligence at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) - Houston, Texas USA. In 2016, he was selected as Young Physician Leader by the Interacademy Medical Panel and M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers. Dr. Passos has a total of 125 peer-reviewed articles published in top psychiatric journals in Pubmed. He published a total of 5 books, including the Springer books entitled “Personalized Psychiatry - Big Data Analytics in Mental Health” and “Digital Mental Health”.Michael Berk, MD, PhD Professor Michael Berk is currently a NHMRC L3 research Fellow and is Alfred Deakin Chair of Psychiatry at Deakin University and Barwon Health, where he heads the Institute for Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation (IMPACT). He also is an Honorary Professorial Research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, the Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health and Orygen Youth Health at Melbourne University, as well as in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He has published over 1600 papers and is listed by Thompson Reuters ISI as highly cited (2015-2024). His major interests are in the discovery and implementation of novel therapies.Flávio Kapczinski, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC is a leader in the field of research on bipolar disorder, an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, and a full professor at UFRGS. Prof. Kapczinski has also served as a mentor, with several former trainees currently occupying important academic positions around the globe. Currently he is among the three most productive researchers in the field of bipolar disorder, and among the five most influential researchers in psychiatry in Canada. In 2013, he received the Mogens Schou Prize for Education from the International Society of bipolar disorders. Clarivate Inc (formerly Thomson Reuters) lists Prof. Kapczinski among the most influential minds in academia, and he has a total of 604 peer-reviewed articles in Pubmed. He published a total of 9 books, including the Springer books entitled “Personalized Psychiatry - Big Data Analytics in Mental Health” and “Digital Mental Health”.

• Historical Roots.- Art and creativity.- Epidemiology.- Genetics of bipolar disorder.- Prodromal symptoms and Risk factors for bipolar disorder.- Diagnosis, clinical features, and differential diagnosis.- Clinical assessment scales.- Differentiation between unipolar and bipolar.- Longitudinal course and clinical progression in bipolar disorder –an updated systematic review.- Staging, functioning, and cognition.- Substance use disorder in the course of bipolar disorder.- Bipolar Disorder and Clinical Comorbidities.- Circadian Rhythms in patients with bipolar disorder.- Blood biomarkers in bipolar disorder.- Mitochondrial dysfunction.- Brain imaging in bipolar disorders - from averages to heterogeneity, from commonalities to individual characteristics.- Neuropathology.- Cognitive functioning in bipolar disorder.- Biomarkers of neuroprogression.- Treatment of mania and hypomania.- Mixed Features and Rapid Cycling.- Treatment of depressive episodes.- Maintenance Treatment.- Evidence-Based Clinical Guide to Suicide Risk and Prevention in People with Bipolar Disorders.- What not to use in the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorder.- Lithium.- The role of antidepressants.- Repurposed drugs of abuse (stimulants, ketamine, and psychedelics): focus on risks.- Psychoeducation.- Cognitive behavioral therapy for bipolar disorder.