Decoding Bipolar Disorder : Practical Treatment and Management

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Dr. Trisha Suppes is Director of the Bipolar Disorder Research Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California.'Her areas of expertise and research include long-term treatment strategies for bipolar disorder, treatment of bipolar depression and bipolar II disorder, and use of treatment algorithms.'Dr. Suppes’ research on lithium discontinuation in the early 1990s helped change the way psychiatrists approach the treatment of bipolar disorder.'More recent work on mixed hypomania contributed to proposed changes in DSM-5.'Dr. Suppes co-authored Decoding Bipolar Disorder: Practical Treatment and Management with Drs. J. Sloan Manning and Paul E. Keck, Jr. She has published over 185 articles appearing in American Journal of Psychiatry, Archives of General Psychiatry, and Harvard Review of Psychiatry, to name a few.' '

Dr. Manning, M.D. is the founding editor of The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. He served for 12 years on the faculty of University of Tennessee, Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Manning has authored or co-authored more than 50 letters, articles and editorials in a variety of journals. Dr. Manning returned to private practice as a family physician in 2003, is on the faculty at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and co-directs the Mood Disorders Clinic at the Moses Cone Family Practice Residency in Greensboro.

Dr. Paul E Keck, Jr., is the Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Keck is also Chief, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Director of the General Clinical Research Center, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has authored over 350 scientific papers and contributed over 130 reviews and chapters to major psychiatric textbooks, primarily focusing on bipolar disorders.