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Decoding Bipolar Disorder: Practical Treatment and Management

Author(s): Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD, Director, Bipolar Disorder Research Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
Dr. J. Sloan Manning, MD, Founding Editor, The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Co-Director , Mood Disorders Clinic , Faculty Member, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Dr. Paul E. Keck Jr., MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Vice Chairman of Research, Department of Psychiatry and Chief of Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Director, General Clinical Research Center
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  • ISBN-13: 9781887537292
  • Paperback    312 pages      © 2007
Price: International Sales $41.95 US List
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Overview

Written primarily for Primary Care Physicians, this comprehensive book provides information on the treatment and management of Bipolar Disorder. Contents include:

  • Introduction to Bipolar Disorder – The Illness
  • The Patient with Bipolar Disorder – Initial Presentation
  • Bipolar Clinical Process – A Patient-Focused Approach
  • Bipolar Disorder Pharmacotherapy
  • Resources for Assessment and Treatment

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Table of Contents

SECTION A: Introduction to Bipolar Disorder - The Illness

  •    Chapter 1: About Bipolar Disorder
  •    Chapter 2: Etiology
  •    Chapter 3: Epidemiology and Risk Factors

SECTION B: The Patient with Bipolar Disorder - Initial Presentation

  •    Chapter 4: The Patient with Depression
  •    Chapter 5: The Patient with Hypomania/Mania or Mixed Episodes

SECTION C:  Bipolar Clinical Process - A Patient-Focused Approach

  •    Chapter 6: Assess for Distress/Dysfunction
  •    Chapter 7: Perform Differential Diagnosis/Evaluate Comorbidity
  •    Chapter 8: Formulate a Working Diagnosis
  •    Chapter 9: Form Collaborative/Therapeutic Treatment Alliances
  •    Chapter 10: Select Treatment Modalities
  •    Chapter 11: Manage the Illness

SECTION D: Bipolar Disorder Pharmacotherapy

  •    Chapter 12: Antimanic Medications
  •    Chapter 13: Antidepressants
  •    Chapter 14: Maintenance Medications

SECTION E: Resources for Assessment and Treatment

  •    Chapter 15: Assessment Tools
  •    Chapter 16: Internet Resources

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Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD-Director, Bipolar Disorder Research Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California

Dr. Trisha Suppes is Director of the Bipolar Disorder Research Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California. Her areas of expertise and research include long-term treatment strategies for bipolar disorder, treatment of bipolar depression and bipolar II disorder, and use of treatment algorithms. Dr. Suppes’ research on lithium discontinuation in the early 1990s helped change the way psychiatrists approach the treatment of bipolar disorder. More recent work on mixed hypomania contributed to proposed changes in DSM-5. Dr. Suppes co-authored Decoding Bipolar Disorder: Practical Treatment and Management with Drs. J. Sloan Manning and Paul E. Keck, Jr. She has published over 185 articles appearing in American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, and Harvard Review of Psychiatry, to name a few. 

 

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Dr. J. Sloan Manning, MD-Founding Editor, The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Co-Director , Mood Disorders Clinic , Faculty Member, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Dr. Manning, M.D. is the founding editor of The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. He served for 12 years on the faculty of University of Tennessee, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Manning has authored or co-authored more than 50 letters, articles and editorials in a variety of journals. Dr. Manning returned to private practice as a family physician in 2003, is on the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and co-directs the Mood Disorders Clinic at the Moses Cone Family Practice Residency in Greensboro.

Dr. Paul E. Keck Jr., MD-Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Vice Chairman of Research, Department of Psychiatry and Chief of Division of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Director, General Clinical Research Center

Dr. Paul E Keck, Jr., is the Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Keck is also Chief, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Director of the General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has authored over 350 scientific papers and contributed over 130 reviews and chapters to major psychiatric textbooks, primarily focusing on bipolar disorders.

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