Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Diagnosis, Neurobiology, and Therapeutic Innovations
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Gustavo H. Vazquez
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 5 8 0 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 3 5 8 1 - 5
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: Diagnosis, Neurobiology and Therapeutic Innovations offers a comprehensive reference on affective disorders, providing clinical practi… Read more
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Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: Diagnosis, Neurobiology and Therapeutic Innovations offers a comprehensive reference on affective disorders, providing clinical practitioners with invaluable insights into recognition, diagnosis, and treatment strategies. Dr. Vázquez meticulously examines the complexities of major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, shedding light on the challenges of distinguishing between these conditions, particularly when manic or hypomanic episodes are not readily apparent. From historical perspectives to the latest DSM criteria, this book thoroughly examines depressive disorders and the variability in their clinical course.
By highlighting mixed states and their implications for suicide risk, exploring the neurobiology and genetics underlying mood disorders, and discussing practical diagnostic tools and pharmacological interventions, this book equips readers with essential knowledge. Accessible language and comprehensive coverage make this an indispensable resource for healthcare professionals, offering insights that can profoundly impact individuals grappling with these challenging mental health conditions.
By highlighting mixed states and their implications for suicide risk, exploring the neurobiology and genetics underlying mood disorders, and discussing practical diagnostic tools and pharmacological interventions, this book equips readers with essential knowledge. Accessible language and comprehensive coverage make this an indispensable resource for healthcare professionals, offering insights that can profoundly impact individuals grappling with these challenging mental health conditions.
- Explores major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, bridging the gap between mood poles and addressing variability in epidemiology and clinical courses
- Provides clinical practitioners with essential tools for recognition, diagnosis, and treatment, including discussions on diagnostic tools, symptom assessment scales, and pharmacological interventions
- Written in an easily understandable manner, making it suitable for healthcare professionals across disciplines
Clinical practitioners including psychiatrists, general practitioners/primary care providers, psychologists, and psychiatry residents. Clinical researchers and graduate students in behavior and mental health disorders
1. Introduction
2. Types of depression
3. Unipolar and bipolar forms of depression
4. The exalted/elated forms
5. The attenuated forms
6. Diagnostic tools
7. Classical neurobiology of affective disorders
8. Recent theories about the neurobiology of major depression
9. Neurobiology of bipolar disorders and mechanisms of action of mood stabilizers drugs
10. Genetics of affective disorders.
11. Suicide and affective disorders
12. Comorbidity with other psychiatric illness.
13. Comorbidity with other medical conditions
14. Pharmacological treatment of major depression
15. The choice of the antidepressant
16. Mood stabilizers
17. Antipsychotics drugs in affective disorders. Beyond the treatment of mania. Clozapine,
18. The refractory depression
19. No-pharmacological treatments
20. Treatment of bipolar disorder
2. Types of depression
3. Unipolar and bipolar forms of depression
4. The exalted/elated forms
5. The attenuated forms
6. Diagnostic tools
7. Classical neurobiology of affective disorders
8. Recent theories about the neurobiology of major depression
9. Neurobiology of bipolar disorders and mechanisms of action of mood stabilizers drugs
10. Genetics of affective disorders.
11. Suicide and affective disorders
12. Comorbidity with other psychiatric illness.
13. Comorbidity with other medical conditions
14. Pharmacological treatment of major depression
15. The choice of the antidepressant
16. Mood stabilizers
17. Antipsychotics drugs in affective disorders. Beyond the treatment of mania. Clozapine,
18. The refractory depression
19. No-pharmacological treatments
20. Treatment of bipolar disorder
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Gustavo H. Vazquez
Gustavo H. Vazquez is a Full Professor at the School of Medicine, Queen's University, Director of the CME and staff member of the Mood Disorders Research and Treatment Service, Department of Psychiatry, Providence Care Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada. He is a member of the Centre for Neuroscience Studies (CNS) at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada), member of the Centre of Neurosicence at Palermo University (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and member of the International Consortium for Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders Research at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States of America).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Lead, Ketamine Clinic, Mood Disorders Research and Treatment Service, Queen’s University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Providence Care Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada