Contents

Foreword

Ronald F Levant, EdD

Professor of Psychology, The University of Akron, and Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine

Bipolar Disorder

Long-term Treatment of Bipolar Disorder with Carbamazepine Extended-Release Capsules in Adults, Adolescents, and Children

Lawrence D Ginsberg, MD

Red Oak Psychiatry Associates, Houston

Modafinil as an Adjunctive Treatment for Bipolar Depression

William V Bobo, MD1

and Richard C Shelton, MD2

1. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry; 2. James G Blakemore Research Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Use of Item Response Theory Methodology to Evaluate Differences Between Bipolar and Unipolar Depression

Lauren M Weinstock, PhD, David Strong, PhD, Lisa A Uebelacker, PhD and Ivan W Miller, PhD

Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Butler Hospital, Providence

Depression

Treating Major Depressive Disorder in Adults in Primary Care— What to Expect from Escitalopram

Pratap R Chokka, MD, FRCPC

Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, and Psychiatrist, Grey Nuns Community Hospital and Health Centre, Edmonton

Sustainable Treatments for Depression in Developing Countries

Helen Verdeli, PhD,1 Hilary B Vidair, PhD,2 Richard Neugebauer, PhD, MPH3 and Daisy R Singla, MA4

1. Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; 2. Research Fellow, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York State Psychiatric Institute; 3. Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University; 4. Graduate Student of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University

Role of Atypical Antipsychotics in the Management of Mania and Depression in Bipolar Disorder Patients 28

Roumen Milev, MD, PhD, FRCPsych, FRCPC

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, and Head, Department of Psychiatry, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Addiction Disorders

The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, the Wechsler Memory Scale Revised, and the Verbal Associative Fluency Test in Assessing Executive Function Abnormality in Pathological Gamblers

Donatella Marazziti, MD, Giorgio Consoli, MD, Mario Catena Dell’Osso, MD, Marina Carlini, MD, Michela Picchetti, MD, Ciro Conversano, MD and Francesca Golia, MD

Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Biotechnology, University of Pisa

Dronabinol Treatment for Cannabis Dependence

John J Mariani, MD1,2 and Frances R Levin, MD1,2

1. Division on Substance Abuse, New York State Psychiatric Institute; 2. Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

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