The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders

Psychiatrists and other mental health care and medical professionals can now turn to a truly authoritative, up-to-date reference for current information about mood disorders. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders—including a wealth of illustrations, tables and references—presents the state of the art in diagnosis, psychobiology, pharmacotherapy, and psychotherapy across the vast spectrum of mood • Symptomatology and historical aspects and social underpinnings of mood disorders, classification and rating scales, and global burden• neurochemistry and psychoneuroendocrinology, cognitive processing models (experimental cognitive research), and evolutionary explanations • Methods of pathology, molecular and cellular neurobiology of severe mood disorders, and genetics of bipolar and unipolar disorders• Types of Mood psychotic depression, seasonal affective disorder, secondary depression with medical illness, major depression seen in primary care, and substance abuse, and sleep disorders• pharmacotherapy, brain stimulation techniques, and psychotherapies• Pertinent personality, culture, and gender Offering a fascinating synthesis of the multifaceted field of mood disorders, the richly informative American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders will prove invaluable for psychiatric and medical practitioners, educators, students, and residents interested in the latest breakthroughs in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of mood disorders.