Handbook of diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorders

"This readable guide to the assessment and management of patients with bipolar disorder can help physicians keep abreast of dramatic and rapid advances of recent years and integrate them into their practice. This book emphasizes recent controlled studies and FDA-approved indications and translates these data into the real world of clinical practice."@en
"This is the first book to provide quantitative assessment of potential benefit (number needed to treat) and risk (number needed to harm) for all approved treatments for bipolar disorder, providing clinicians with information needed to balance benefits and risks in order to render individualized state-of-the-art, evidence-based care. It describes all FDA-approved indications - reviewing efficacy, safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, illness phase - specific dosing, and drug interactions. The book then demonstrates the relevance of this approach to therapeutics by providing: an overview of pharmacotherapy that covers the emergence of evidence-based pharmacotherapy; guidelines to managing acute manic and mixed episodes that include evidence-based assessments; coverage of acute major depressive episodes in bipolar disorders; discussion of the longer-term management of bipolar disorders; a review of the use of mood stabilizers and second-generation antipsychotics, often in comb."