Bipolar affective disorder – Challenges in pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy

Bipolar affective disorders are correlated with high relapse rates and loss of psychosocial functions in the long-term course. Episodic course, experience of the disorder and ...

Neurophysiology and neuropsychology of bipolar disorders

Patients with bipolar disorder are characterized by cognitive impairments, not only during depressive and manic episodes, but also after remission of clinical symptoms. These cognitive dysfunctions ...

Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder and acute mania

Pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorder is challenging. Symptomatology over the course of the disease can manifest in different ways: as acute mania, hypomania, bipolar depression and mixed states. Adherence ...

Emotion-regulation training for patients with bipolar disorder – First results of a pilot study

Compared to healthy controls, patients with bipolar disorder display an increased use of maladaptive and a decreased use of adaptive emotion regulation ...

Psycho- und socio-therapeutic interventions in the treatment of bipolar affective disorders – review

The effectiveness of mood-stabilizing medication in the phase-prophylactic treatment of bipolar disorders has been documented. Nonetheless patients ...

Psychodynamic psychotherapy with bipolar affective disorders

In this article the psychodynamic differences between several kinds of depressive disorders and bipolar disorders are presented as well as the psychodynamic models for mania and depression, ...

Clinical research on psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic care

This article provides the current state of knowledge of clinical research in psychotherapy and psychosomatic care. A standardized evidence-based approach in clinical practice seems to be ...