edited by Gian Franco Placidi, Liliana Dell'Osso, Giuseppe Nisticò, Hagop S. Akiskal.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1993
(xvii, 304 pages 82 illustrations)
Etiologic Aspects --;Toward a Psychobiology of Affective Recurrences: Interaction of Biological and Psychological Factors --;New Genetic Findings in Recurrent Mood Disorders --;Recent Findings on Thyroid Function in Depression --;Cognitive Aspects of Depression: An Experimental Study --;Variability of Cognitive Patterns in Subjects with Mood Disorder --;Personality and Depression --;Aggressive Behaviour and Hostility in Depression: Clinical Aspects --;Course and Outcome --;Course as Classifier for Depression --;Course and Outcome: Definitional Dilemmas --;Bipolar Disorders in Prepubertal Children --;Bipolar Disorder in Adolescence --;Diagnosis, Clinical Assessment, and Treatment of Late-Life Depression --;Recurrent Major Depression: Catamnestic Evaluation of Inpatients --;Psychotic Mixed State: Clinical-Anamnestic and Familial Comparisons with Nonpsychotic Mixed, Psychotic Manic, and Schizoaffective Disorders --;Heterogeneity of Course and Outcome in Subjects with a Cross-Sectional Diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder --;Old and New Treatments and Prophylaxis --;Testing Efficacy and Safety of Long-Term Treatment in Manic-Depressive Illness: Past and Present Problems --;The Prophylaxis of Unipolar Depression --;Maintenance Therapies in Recurrent Depression: Psychotherapy and Combined Treatment --;Lithium Treatment: Relationship Between Relapses and Personality Disorders --;Effects of Lithium on Information Processing: Evidence from Partial Responders and Nonresponders --;Chronic Lithium Salt Treatment and Calcium Metabolism --;Amiloride and Severe Lithium-Induced Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus --;New Pharmacological Aspects of Rubidium Salts --;Rubidium --;20 Years On --;Biochemical and Physiological Guidelines for Long-Term Rubidium Therapy --;Rubidium Shows Different Effects from Lithium on Phosphatidylinositol Metabolism in a Cell Line of Human Neuroblastoma --;Influences of Rubidium and Lithium on Cyclic AMP Formation in Rat Brain --;Electrolytes, Renal Function, and Rubidium Chloride Therapy Side Effects --;Antidepressive Action of Rubidium --;Treatment of Depressive Disorders with Rubidium Chloride --;Clinical Investigations on the Efficacy and Tolerability of Rubidium Chloride --;Rubidium Chloride in Recurrent Depression: Clinical and Biological Correlates --;Rubidium Chloride in Chronic Mood Disorders --;Rubidium Chloride Versus Imipramine: A Double-Blind Study --;Psychotherapeutic Problems in Chronic and Resistant Depressions --;Bright Light Treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder and Nonseasonal Bipolar and Unipolar Affective Syndromes.
Current evidence indicates that over two-thirds of mooddisorders pursue a recurrent or chronic course. Yet much ofthe progress recorded in the field of mood disorders andtheir treatment has been in research into the acute phase ofthe illness.
Medicine.
Psychiatry.
RC537
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E358
1993
edited by Gian Franco Placidi, Liliana Dell'Osso, Giuseppe Nisticò, Hagop S. Akiskal.