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Depressive and bipolar disorders : diagnosis, neurobiology, and therapeutic innovations /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vázquez, Gustavo Héctor (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Affective disorders > Treatment.
Affective disorders > Diagnosis.
Neurobiology.
Neurobiology
Depressive Disorder
Bipolar and Related Disorders
Troubles affectifs > Traitement.
Neurobiologie.
Affective disorders > Treatment
Affective disorders > Diagnosis
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Types of depression
  • Unipolar and bipolar forms of depression
  • The elevated forms
  • The attenuated forms
  • Diagnostic and screening tools
  • Classic neurobiological theory of affective disorders: the neurotransmitters imbalance
  • Recent theories about the neurobiology of major depression
  • Neurobiology of bipolar disorders and mechanisms of action of mood stabilizers medications
  • Genetics of affective disorders
  • Suicide and affective disorders
  • Comorbidity with other psychiatric illness
  • Comorbidity with other medical conditions
  • Pharmacological treatment of major depression
  • Selecting an antidepressant
  • Mood stabilizers
  • Antipsychotic medications in affective disorders
  • Difficult to treat depression
  • No-pharmacological treatments for mood disorders
  • Mania and maintenance treatments of bipolar disorders
  • Treatment of bipolar depression.