Bipolar disorder: mixed states, rapid-cycling and atypical forms/ Andreas marneros & Frederick K Goodwin ed.

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Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania -- Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective -- Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder -- Bipolar I and bipolar II: a dichotomy -- Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders -- Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum -- Agitated depression: spontaneous and induced --Schizoaffective mixed states -- Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder -- Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents -- Atypical features of bipolarity in old age -- Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders -- Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorder -- Biological aspects of rapid-cycling and mixed states -- The treatment of bipolar mixed states -- The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagonostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states psychotic and non-psychotic -- Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling mixed episodes and atypical bipolar mood disorder