Product Description: Bipolar disorders affect up to 3% of the world's population and are the 6th leading cause of disability worldwide. The estimated annual costs of bipolar disorder approach $50 billion in the United States, and the associated societal and personal suffering is immeasurable...read more

Product Description: Schizophrenia is the most widely known and feared mental illness worldwide, yet a rapidly growing literature from a broad spectrum of basic and clinical disciplines, especially epidemiology and molecular genetics, suggests that schizophrenia is the same condition as a psychotic bipolar disorder and does not exist as a separate disease...read more

Product Description: Bipolar disorder is one of the most common, and disabling, conditions affecting human kind. Each year, millions of individuals struggle with the effects of this illness. Although clinically well recognized for decades, if not centuries, the causes of this condition remain incompletely understood...read more

Product Description: In the 1970s, author Joel Paris was one of the first doctors in his hospital to prescribe lithium to a psychiatric patient. In the wake of the drug’s success, both in that case and countless others, why this book? As Dr. Paris’ historical examination of bipolar diagnosis and critique of the spectrum demonstrates, medicine has often been prone to fads that are assumed correct until proven wrong by science...read more

Product Description: Bipolar disorder is associated with a significant impairment in overall functioning in work, social and family levels, even during periods of sustained and substantial remission. Social cognition implies those processes in "how individuals think about themselves, others, social situations and their interactions"...read more

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Product Description: Bipolar Disorder Assessment and Treatment, Second Edition has been updated to reflect today's standards of care for diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder in adults. This professional reference title includes extensive information for diagnosing, treating and managing adult patients with bipolar disorder...read more

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Product Description: Responding to the explosion of research on the pathophysiology and management of bipolar disorder, this completely revised Second Edition spans basic mechanisms, neuroimaging, viral etiology, neurofactors, current treatment implications, and modern theories of the neurobiology of bipolar disorder to stand as the most authoritative reference on this debilitating condition...read more

Product Description: The Wiley Concise Guides to Mental Health: Bipolar Disorder uses clear, highly accessible language to comprehensively guide the reader through the entire spectrum of bipolar and related disorders. This concise, informative reference provides a complete overview of the history of the field, diagnosis, treatment, research, emerging trends, and other critical information about bipolar disorder...read more

Product Description: Decoding Bipolar Disorder is a quick reference on Bipolar Disorder. It is up-to-date and easy to use.

Product Description: Responding to the explosion of research on the pathophysiology and management of bipolar disorder, this completely revised Second Edition spans basic mechanisms, neuroimaging, viral etiology, neurofactors, current treatment implications, and modern theories of the neurobiology of bipolar disorder to stand as the most authoritative reference on this debilitating condition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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'Exciting and fascinating, this reference work succeeds in its goal of bringing 'joy as well as enlightenment' about all forms of dance in all countries of the world. An extremely useful synoptic outline of contents' with nine sections (including 'Ritualand Religion' and 'Popular Entertainment') enables the user to explore dance in its cultural and social aspects, while topical essays complement the 2,000-plus entries. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the encyclopedia captures the fluid movement of dance; with its depth and scope, this outstanding work has carved a well-deserved niche'.--'Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles', American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.