Bipolar Disorders: 100 Years after Manic-Depressive Insanity

Bipolar disorders: roots and evolution.- The soft bipolar spectrum: footnotes to Kraepelin on the interface of hypomania, temperament and depression.- The mixed bipolar disorders.- Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder.- Bipolar schizoaffective disorders.- Bipolar disorders during pregnancy, post partum and in menopause.- Adolescent-onset bipolar illness.- Bipolar disorder in old age.- Temperament and personality types in bipolar patients a historical review.- Interactional styles in bipolar disorder.- Comorbidity in bipolar affective disorder.- The genetic epidemiology of bipolar disorder.- Genetics of bipolar affective disorder.- The biology of bipolar disorder.- Cyclicity and manic-depressive illness.- Bipolar shifts as disorders of the bi-hemispheric integration of language: implications for the genetic origins of the psychotic continuum.- Mood stabilizers in bipolar disorder.- Antipsychotics in acute mania.- Antidepressant treatment of bipolar depression.- The prognosis of bipolar disorders: course and outcome.- The costs of treatment of bipolar disorder.- Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: Unifying the concept of psychosis through brain morphology.- On entities and continuities of bipolar disorders.