Includes bibliographical references and index.

The current classification of bipolar disorders / Gin S. Malhi and Yulisha Byrow -- Should the bipolar disorders be modelled dimensionally or categorically? / Gordon Parker and Amelia Paterson -- The treatment of bipolar disorder on its early stages / Ajeet B. Singh, Harris A. Eyre, Edward Callaly and Michael Berk -- Evidence-based treatment of mania / Bernardo Ng and Mauricio Tohen -- The treatment of bipolar mixed states / Sarah Kittel-Schneider -- The treatment of rapid cycling bipolar disorder / Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis and Dimos Dimellis -- Evidence-based treatment of bipolar depression / Mark A. Frye, Paul E. Croarkin, Marin Veldic, Malik M. Nassan, Katherine M. Moore, Simon Kung, Susannah J. Tye, William V. Bobo, and Jennifer L. Vande Voort -- Evidence-based maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder / Dina Popovic and Eduard Vieta -- The treatment of bipolar II disorder / Lakshmi N. Yatham and Muralidharan Kesavan -- The treatment of cyclothymia / Giulio Perugi, Giulia Vannucchi, and Lorenzo Mazzarini -- Psychological interventions for early stage bipolar disorder / Jan Scott -- Psychotherapeutic interventions for bipolar disorder / María Reinares -- The role of psychoeducation in the management of bipolar disorder / Francesc Colom -- Functional remediation therapy for bipolar disorder / Carla Torrent, Caterina del Mar Bronnin, and Anabel Martinez-Arán -- Predominant polarity, polarity index, and treatment selection in bipolar disorder / Sabrina C. da Costa, Joao L. de Quevedo, and André F. Carvalho -- The assessment and management of suicide risk in bipolar disorder / Zoltán Rihmer, Xénia Gonda, and Péter Döme -- Treatment implications for bipolar disorder co-occurring with anxiety syndromes and substance abuse / Gustavo H. Vásquez, Alberto Forte, Sebastián Camino, Leonardo Tondo, and Ross J. Baldessarini -- The impact of psychiatric co-morbidity in the treatment of bipolar disorder / Anna I. Guerdjikova, Paul E. Keck, Jr, and Susan L. McElroy -- Bidirectional relationships between general medical conditions and bipolar disorder / Nefize Yalin, Danilo Arnone, and Allan Young -- The treatment of bipolar disorder in women / Danielle Balzafiore, Thalia Robakis, Sarah Borish, Vena Budhan, and Natalie Rasgon -- The treatment of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents / Philip Hazell -- The treatment of bipolar disorder in the elderly / Gilberto Sousa Alves, Felipe Kenji Sudo, and Johannes Pantel -- The management of treatment-resistant bipolar disorder / Salih Selek, Ives Cavalcante Passos, and Jair C. Soares -- Staging and neuroprogression in bipolar disorder / Ives Cavalcante Passos and Flávio Kapczinski -- Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder / Vicent Balanzá-Martínez, Sofia Brissos, Maria Lacruz, and Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos -- Cognitive enhancement in bipolar disorder / Kamilla W. Miskowiak and Lars V. Kessing -- The role of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of bipolardisorder / Roumen Milev -- Neuromodulatory approaches for bipolar disorder / Andre Russsowsky Brunoni, Bernando de Sampaio Pereira Júnior, and Izio Klein -- The role of complementary and alternative therapies for the management of bipolar disorder / Arun V. Ravindran and Tricia L. da Silva -- Novel therapeutic targets for bipolar disorder / Ioline D. Henter and Rodrigo Machado-Vieira -- The treatment of bipolar disorder in the era of personalized medicine / Chiara Fabbri and Alessandro Serretti.