Bipolar depression: Clinical phenotype and course of illness -- The history of bipolar disorders -- The clinical diagnosis of bipolar depression -- Course and outcome of bipolar disorder -- focusing on depressive aspects -- Suicide and bipolar disorder -- Bipolar depression: Neurobiology -- The genetic basis of bipolar disorder -- Understanding the neurobiology of bipolar depression -- Non-pharmacological treatments and chronobiological aspects of bipolar disorder: implications for novel therapeutics -- Neuroimaging studies of bipolar depression: therapeutic implications -- Acute and long-term treatment of bipolar disorder -- Pharmacological treatment of acute bipolar depression -- Pharmacological treatment of the maintenance phase of bipolar depression: focus on relapse prevention studies and the impact of design on generalizability -- Non-pharmacological somatic treatments for bipolar depression -- Potential novel treatments for bipolar depression -- Treatment of bipolar disorder in special populations -- Late-onset bipolar disorder -- Treatment of childhood-onset bipolar disorder -- Treatment of bipolar disorder during and after pregnancy -- Conclusion
Summary
Offers information about the diagnosis, treatment, and research surrounding bipolar depression. This work provides diagnostic information, and reviews the course, outcome, and genetics of this highly heritable condition, allowing clinicians to distinguish between the various mood disorders
