Personalized Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neurodevelopment disorder; bipolar disorder and bipolar spectrum; anxiety disorder; panic anxiety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bipolar disorders (BDs) are chronic and recurrent illnesses that affect >1% of the world’s population. The diagnostic category of BDs encompasses heterogeneous conditions that may include several biological entities with different etiopathogenesis, courses, and treatment managements.
Personalized medicine for mental disorders aims to develop diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic strategies tailored to each individual. In BD, clinical history, current symptomatology, longitudinal course, and physical and psychiatric comorbidity are still the most reliable markers for stratifying patients and guiding therapeutic management, although researchers are hard at work to develop new neuropsychological or biological markers that can reliably predict the effectiveness of individualized therapy.
This personalized approach could provide a new and rational way of developing treatments for targeted subgroups of BD patients. For example, this strategy could allow for the effective personalization of drug treatments in complex cases of comorbidities involving BD and neurodevelopmental disorders.
This Special Issue will highlight advances in personalized medicine for BD, with a focus on how psychopathology, disease course, and psychiatric comorbidities can influence treatment management and complement conventional treatment guidelines.
Prof. Dr. Giulio Perugi
Dr. Margherita Barbuti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bipolar disorder
- psychiatric comorbidity
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- neuro-progression
- neurodegenerative bipo-larity, personalized medicine
- mood-stabilizers
- somatic treatments
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