Monday, June 23, 2003

Bipolar Disorder: Unmet Needs -- Clinical, Consumer, and Economic
A "Special Report Editor's Column" at Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health - "... While there is no question that we have improved and expanded upon our ability to treat bipolar disorder, our clinical abilities have quite a distance to go to be able to answer the fundamental questions that clinicians grapple with on a daily basis. We are beginning to understand that there are many different types of bipolar disease, each with different phenomenology and probably a different prognosis. As we develop a differential diagnosis for the subtypes of bipolar disease, we must struggle with the differential therapeutics of the subtypes. We have increasing numbers of subtypes and treatments, but we have made relatively little progress on matching them up with each other. " [Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].