Bipolar Disorders

The Official Journal of The International Society for Bipolar Disorders

Edited by:
Samuel Gershon and K.N. Roy Chengappa

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2007: 15/146 (Clinical Neurology); 38/211 (Neurosciences); 13/94 (Psychiatry)
Impact Factor: 4.442

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Bipolar disorders is a severe and debilitating mental illness, which has only recently started to receive the necessary attention from society, researchers, practitioners, government, and private funding agencies. In response to the need for further awareness, education, and research on this severe mental illness, the International Society for Bipolar Disorders was created in 1999. In the same year Bipolar Disorders, the official journal of the society, was launched. This international journal publishes all research of relevance to the basic mechanisms, clinical aspects, or treatment of bipolar disorders. It intends to provide a single international outlet for new research in this area. With an outstanding impact factor, the journal has made a huge impact on the biological psychiatry community and continues to be a valuable resource for authors and researchers alike.
The journal covers research in the following areas:  

• biochemistry
• physiology
• neuropsychopharmacology
• neuroanatomy
• neuropathology
• genetics
• brain imaging
• epidemiology
• phenomenology
• clinical aspects
• and therapeutics of bipolar disorders

Bipolar Disorders also contains papers that form the development of new therapeutic strategies for these disorders as well as papers on the topics of schizoaffective disorders and recurrent depressive disorders, as these are cyclic disorders with areas of overlap with bipolar disorders.

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TopHighlights

As an international journal, Bipolar Disorders publishes all research of relevance to the basic mechanisms, clinical aspects, or treatment of bipolar disorders. To increase the accessibility of the journal, the top most cited articles from 2005 and 2006 and a few other key articles are now available on Blackwell Synergy for you to read, search, and cite from, free of charge:

Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies
Volume 7, Issue s3

Metabolic syndrome in bipolar disorder: findings from the Bipolar Disorder Center for Pennsylvanians
Volume 7, Issue 5

Review and meta-analysis of the phenomenology and clinical characteristics of mania in children and adolescents
Volume 7, Issue 6

Neuropsychological dysfunction in bipolar affective disorder: a critical opinion
Volume 7, Issue 3

Bipolar disorder and myo-inositol: a review of the magnetic resonance spectroscopy findings
Volume 7, Issue 1

Reproductive function and risk for PCOS in women treated for bipolar disorder
Volume 7, Issue 3

Topiramate monotherapy in the management of acute mania: results of four double-blind placebo-controlled trials
Volume 8, Issue 1

The CBCL predicts DSM bipolar disorder in children: a receiver operating characteristic curve analysis
Volume 7, Issue 6

Age at onset in bipolar affective disorders: a review
Volume 7, Issue 2

Suicidal risk in bipolar I disorder patients and adherence to long-term lithium treatment
Volume 8, Issue 5

Affective instability as rapid cycling: theoretical and clinical implications for borderline personality and bipolar spectrum disorders
Volume 8, Issue 1

Decreased risk of suicides and attempts during long-term lithium treatment: a meta-analytic review
Volume 8, Issue 5

Bipolar II disorder: a review
Volume 7, Issue 1

Pharmacotherapy of bipolar mixed states
Volume 7, Issue 3

Functional impairment in the remission phase of bipolar disorder
Volume 7, Issue 3

Declarative memory impairment in pediatric bipolar disorder
Volume 7, Issue 6

Evolution of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: a systematic review of cross-sectional evidence
Volume 8, Issue 2

Pediatric bipolar disease: current and future perspectives for study of its long-term course and treatment
Volume 8, Issue 4