Bipolar Disorder: A Clinician's Guide to Treatment Management

Bipolar disorder is one of the most common and potentially devastating psychiatric illnesses. This essential text book provides clinicians with an extraordinarily well-balanced and comprehensive overview of rational and research-informed contemporary clinical practice in the assessment and medical management of patients with bipolar disorder. With the advent of a new generation of treatments, there is a resurgence of interest in the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorders. In Bipolar Disorder, clinicians who are faced with making choices from a variety of treatments are instructed how to mold their practice around the long-term symptomatic and functional needs of their patients. With a focus on pharmacotherapy, the foundation of symptomatic treatment, Bipolar Disorderprovides the most recent analysis of the data regarding efficacy and safety of medications along with practical guidelines with which treatment choices can be made.

Lakshmi N. Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK), is Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Research and International Affairs at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Vivek Kusumakar, MD, FRCPC, MRCPsych (UK) is Professor at Dalhousie University's Department of Psychiatry, and Global Senior Director, CNS Pain, Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Development.