Bipolar psychopharmacotherapy
Subtitle: caring for the patient
By: editors, Hagop S. Akiskal and Mauricio Tohen.
Contributors: Akiskal, Hagop S.; Tohen, Mauricio.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chichester; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Manic-depressive illness -- Chemotherapy.; Lithium -- Therapeutic use.; Antipsychotic drugs.; Psychopharmacology.; Bipolar Disorder -- drug therapy.; Anticonvulsants -- therapeutic use.; Antimanic Agents -- therapeutic use.; Antipsychotic Agents -- therapeutic use.; Bipolar Disorder -- prevention & control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The scope of bipolar disorder / Hagop S. Akiskal; title: Lithium treatment: focus on long-term prophylaxis / Mogens Schou and Paul Grof; title: Valproate: clinical pharmacological profile / Charles L. Bowden and Vivek Singh; title: Pharmacological profile and clinical utility of lamotrigine in bipolar disorders / David J. Muzina and Joseph R. Calabrese; title: Carbamazepine, other anticonvulsants, and augmenting agents / Heinz Grunze; title: Olanzapine in treatment of bipolar disorder / Mauricio Tohen, Giedra Campbell, and Daniel Lin; title: Haloperidol and risperidone in mania / John Cookson; title: A comparison of "second generation antipsychotics" in the treatment of bipolar disorder: focus on clozapine, quetiapine, ziprasidone and aripiprazole / Paul E. Keck and Susan L. McElroy; title: Complex combination therapy: the evolution toward rational polypharmacy in lithium-resistant bipolar illness / Robert M. Post, Andrew Speer, and Gabriele S. Leverich; title: The primacy of mania / Athanasios Koukopoulos; title: Diagnostic and clinical management approaches to bipolar depression, bipolar II and their comorbidities / Giulio Perugi, S. Nassir Ghaemi, and Hagop S. Akiskal; title: Bipolarity in women: therapeutic issues / Susan L. McElroy, Lesley M. Arnold, and Lori I. Altshuler; title: Pediatric bipolar disorder: the promise of psychopharmacotherapy / Joseph Biederman; title: Treatment of bipolar disorder in old age / Kenneth I. Shulman; title: Psychosocial interventions in bipolar disorders: rationale and effectiveness / David J. Miklowitz; title: The pivotal role of psycho-education in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder / Francesc Colom and Eduard Vieta; title: The role of treatment setting in the pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder / Jean-Michel Azorin; title: Suicide prevention / Zoltán Rihmer; title: Principles of caring for bipolar patients / Hagop S. Akiskal and Kareen K. Akiskal.