The Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

André F. Carvalho is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil. He has published more than a hundred publications in leading scientific journals. In addition, he has been elected vice-chair of the section of Private Practice Psychiatry (World Psychiatric Association) and is a member of the board of councilors of the International Society of Bipolar Disorder (ISBD).Eduard Vieta is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Hospital Clinic, where he also leads the Bipolar Disorders Program in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. His unit is one of the worldwide leaders in clinical care, teaching and research on bipolar disorder. He also leads the Bipolar Research Program at the Spanish Research Network on Mental Diseases (CIBERSAM) and is the most cited scientist worldwide in the field of bipolar disorder over the last 5 years and one of the world's most influential scientific minds, according to Thompson Reuters.

• 1: Gin S. Malhi and Yulisha Byrow: The current classification of bipolar disorders2: Gordon Parker and Amelia Paterson: Should the bipolar disorders be modelled dimensionally or categorically?3: Michael Berk & Ajeet Singh - Singh AB, Eyre HA, Callaly E, Berk M: The treatment of bipolar disorder on its early stages: challenges and developments.4: Bernardo Ng and Mauricio Tohen: Evidence-based treatment of mania5: Sarah Kittel-Schneider: The treatment of bipolar mixed states6: Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis and Dimos Dimellis: The treatment of rapid cycling bipolar disorder7: Mark A Frye, Paul E. Croarkin, Marin Veldic, Malik M Nassan, Katherine M Moore, Simon Kung, Susannah J. Tye, and William V. Bobo: Evidence-based treatment of bipolar depression8: Dina Popovic and Eduard Vieta: Evidence-based maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder9: Lakshmi N. Yatham and Muralidharan Kesavan: The treatment of type II bipolar disorder10: Giulio Perugi, Giulia Vannucchi and Lorenzo Mazzarini: The treatment of Cyclothymia11: Jan Scott: Psychological interventions for early stage Bipolar Disorder12: María Reinares: Psychotherapeutic interventions for bipolar disorder13: Francesc Colom: The role of psychoeducation in the management of bipolar disorder14: Carla Torrent, Caterina del Mar Bonnin and Anabel Martinez-Arán: Functional remediation therapy for bipolar disorder15: Sabrina C. da Costa, Joao L. de Quevedo, André F. Carvalho: Predominant polarity, polarity index and treatment selection in bipolar disorder16: Zoltán Rihmer, Xénia Gonda, and Péter Döme: The assessment and management of suicide risk in bipolar disorder17: Gustavo H. Vázquez, Alberto Forte, Sebastián Camino, Leonardo Tondo,and Ross J. Baldessarini: Treatment implications for bipolar disorder co-occurring with anxiety syndromes and substance-abuse18: Anna I. Guerdjikova, Paul E. Keck, Jr., and Susan L. McElroy: The impact of psychiatric comorbidity in the treatment of bipolar disorder: focus on eating disorders and ADHD19: Nefize Yalin, Danilo Arnone and Allan Y. Young: Bidirectional relationships between general medical conditions and bipolar disorder: treatment considerations20: Danielle Balzafiore, Thalia Robakis, Sarah Borish, Vena Budhan, Natalie Rasgon: The treatment of bipolar disorder in women21: Phillip Hazell: The treatment of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents22: Gilberto S. Alves, Felipe Kenji Sudo, and Johannes Pantel: The treatment of bipolar disorder in the eldery23: Salih Selek, Ives C. Passos Jair C. Soares: The management of treatment-resistant bipolar disorder24: Flavio Kapczinski & Ives Cavalcante Passos: Staging and neuroprogression in bipolar disorder: treatment implications25: Vicent Balanzá-Martínez, Sofia Brissos, Maria Lacruz, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos: Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder: impact on neurocognition26: Kamilla W. Miskowiak & Lars Vedel Kessing: Cognitive enhancement in bipolar disorder: current evidence and methodological considerations27: Roumen Milev: The role of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in bipolar disorder treatment28: Andre Russowsky Brunoni, Bernardo de Sampaio Pereira Júnior, Izio Klein: Neuromodulatory approaches for bipolar disorder: current evidences and perspectives29: Arun V. Ravindran and Tricia L. da Silva: The role of complementary and alternative therapies for the management of bipolar disorder30: Ioline D Henter and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira: Novel therapeutic targets for bipolar disorder31: Chiara Fabbri and Alessandro Serretti: The treatment of bipolar disorder in the era of personalized medicine: myth or promise?

As a clinical reference and as an advanced teaching tool, the book is second only to an exhaustive period of reading all the studies ever written... As I began reading I was drawn in to reading it all, by the opportunity to learn experts approach to treatment in their special area of the common, but nonetheless complicated illness bipolar disorder.