EDITORIALS 

Gary S. Sachs

From the Guest Editor

Focus 2007 5: 1 [Full Text] [PDF]

Photograph

Focus 2007 5: 2 [Full Text] [PDF]

CLINICAL SYNTHESIS 

Gary S. Sachs

Bipolar Disorder Clinical Synthesis: Where Does the Evidence Lead?

Focus 2007 5: 3-13 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME: Bipolar Disorder]

Christine T. Finn

A Brief Overview of the Genetics of Bipolar Disorder

Focus 2007 5: 14-17 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME: Bipolar Disorder]

S. Nassir Ghaemi

Ask the Expert: TREATMENT OF PATIENT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER AND DEPRESSION

Focus 2007 5: 18-19 [Full Text] [PDF]

B. Harrison Levine and Ronald C. Albucher

Patient Management Exercise FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER

Focus 2007 5: 20-32 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Robert M.A. Hirschfeld

Comment on Guideline Watch: Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder, 2nd Edition

Focus 2007 5: 33 [Full Text] [PDF]

Robert M. A. Hirschfeld

Guideline Watch (November 2005): Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Bipolar Disorder, 2nd Edition

Focus 2007 5: 34-39 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS 

Bibliography BIPOLAR DISORDER

Focus 2007 5: 40-43 [Full Text] [PDF] [Role of Psychotherapy in the Management of Bipolar Disorder] [Pharmacotherapy of Bipolar Depression]

Abstracts FOR BIPOLAR DISORDER

Focus 2007 5: 44-58 [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael Gitlin

Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorder

Focus 2007 5: 49-63 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jan Scott, Eugene Paykel, Richard Morriss, Richard Bentall, Peter Kinderman, Tony Johnson, Rosemary Abbott, and Hazel Hayhurst

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Severe and Recurrent Bipolar Disorders: Randomised Controlled Trial

Focus 2007 5: 64-72 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

R.M. Post and G.S. Leverich

The Role of Psychosocial Stress in the Onset and Progression of Bipolar Disorder and its Comorbidities: The Need for Earlier and Alternative Modes of Therapeutic Intervention

Focus 2007 5: 73-97 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Gabriele S. Leverich, Lori L. Altshuler, Mark A. Frye, Trisha Suppes, Susan L. McElroy, Paul E. Keck, Jr., Ralph W. Kupka, Kirk D. Denicoff, Willem A. Nolen, Heinz Grunze, Maria I. Martinez, and Robert M. Post

Risk of Switch in Mood Polarity to Hypomania or Mania in Patients With Bipolar Depression During Acute and Continuation Trials of Venlafaxine, Sertraline, and Bupropion as Adjuncts to Mood Stabilizers

Focus 2007 5: 98-106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Lori L. Altshuler, Trisha Suppes, David O. Black, Willem A. Nolen, Gabriele Leverich, Paul E. Keck, Jr., Mark A. Frye, Ralph Kupka, Susan L. McElroy, Heinz Grunze, Christina M.R. Kitchen, and Robert Post

Lower Switch Rate in Depressed Patients With Bipolar II Than Bipolar I Disorder Treated Adjunctively With Second-Generation Antidepressants

Focus 2007 5: 107-110 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Leston L. Havens and S. Nassir Ghaemi

Existential Despair and Bipolar Disorder: The Therapeutic Alliance as a Mood Stabilizer

Focus 2007 5: 111-116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Erin E. Michalak, Lakshmi N. Yatham, and Raymond W. Lam

Quality of Life in Bipolar Disorder: A Review of the Literature

Focus 2007 5: 117-134 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]