Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania
- 2 Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective
- 3 Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder
- 4 Bipolar I and bipolar II: a dichotomy?
- 5 Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders
- 6 Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum
- 7 Agitated depression: spontaneous and induced
- 8 Schizoaffective mixed states
- 9 Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder?
- 10 Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
- 11 Atypical features of bipolarity in old age
- 12 Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders
- 13 Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorder
- 14 Biological aspects of rapid-cycling and mixed states
- 15 The treatment of bipolar mixed states
- 16 The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic
- 17 Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder
- Index
- References
16 - The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Bipolar disorders beyond major depression and euphoric mania
- 2 Emerging concepts of mixed states: a longitudinal perspective
- 3 Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder
- 4 Bipolar I and bipolar II: a dichotomy?
- 5 Recurrent brief depression as an indicator of severe mood disorders
- 6 Atypical depression and its relation to bipolar spectrum
- 7 Agitated depression: spontaneous and induced
- 8 Schizoaffective mixed states
- 9 Acute and transient psychotic disorder: an atypical bipolar disorder?
- 10 Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents
- 11 Atypical features of bipolarity in old age
- 12 Comorbidity in mixed states and rapid-cycling forms of bipolar disorders
- 13 Challenges in the genetics of bipolar disorder
- 14 Biological aspects of rapid-cycling and mixed states
- 15 The treatment of bipolar mixed states
- 16 The use of atypical antipsychotic agents in the treatment of diagnostic subgroups of bipolar disorder: mixed and pure states, psychotic and non-psychotic
- 17 Investigational strategies: treatment of rapid cycling, mixed episodes, and atypical bipolar mood disorder
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
There are many challenges in treating bipolar disorder, including confronting marked variability in symptoms between patients, as well as highly differing symptomatic presentations within an individual patient's course of illness. Diversity of presentation and course is potentially quite important to prognosis and treatment selection, though the relevance has not been consistently well defined in empirical research. This chapter reviews controlled findings regarding the impact of variant bipolar presentations to predicting treatment response with atypical antipsychotic agents.
Classic bipolar I disorder consists of euthymic periods punctuated by episodes of mania or major depression. Interindividual variability is manifest in differing severity, length, and frequency of manic and depressive episodes and the degree of symptom relief occurring between acute episodes. There are, of course, many variations on the classic pattern, such as the concurrent dysphoric and manic symptoms of mixed states, subsyndromal presentations, or the markedly frequent episodes of rapid cycling. Bipolar disorder is also commonly complicated by psychiatric comorbidity, such as psychosis, as well as substance abuse or physical disorders. Not surprisingly, patients with bipolar disorder have increased mortality from suicide, accidents, substance-abuse-related causes, and various medical diseases (Baldessarini, 2002).
Variant presentations may be more difficult to treat than classic bipolar depression or mania. First, these presentations often broaden the range of target symptoms requiring treatment, including, for example, psychotic symptoms or the pivotal need to slow cycling in rapid cyclers. Such variant presentations may help to explain the polypharmacy that is typical of bipolar disorder treatment.
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- Bipolar DisordersMixed States, Rapid Cycling and Atypical Forms, pp. 353 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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