The Affective disorders / edited by John M. Davis and James W. Maas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A review of the new antidepressant medications / John M. Davis, Daniel J. Fredman, & Robert D. Linden -- Biological discriminations of subtypes of depressions / Joseph J. Schildkraut [et al.] -- Clinical and etiologic implications of biologic derangements in major depressions / A. John Rush -- Survey of depressed patients who have failed to respond to treatment / Alan F. Schatzberg [et al.] -- Plasma catecholamines and dihydroxyphenylglycol (DOPEG) in depressed patients during phenelzine and amitriptyline treatment / Donald S. Robinson [et al.] -- Transport of tryptophan and tyrosine across the blood barrier in manic depressive and schizophrenic patients / Rene Tissot [et al.] -- Application of the sleep EEG in affective disorders / David J. Kupfer -- Faster cholinergic REM sleep induction as a possible trait marker of affective illness / Natraj Sitaram -- The diagnosis and classification of affective disorders / Nancy C. Andreasen -- Phenomenological heterogeneity of depressive disorders / John Overall --
Retardation: a basic emotional response? / Daniel Widlocher -- Recent genetic studies of bipolar and unipolar depression / David L. Drunner -- The prevalence and course of the affective disorders / Paula J. Clayton -- Later life depression--Clinical and therapeutic aspects / Jose L. Ayusi-Gutierrez -- Dysthymic and cyclothymic disorders: a paradigm for high-risk research in psychiatry / Hagop Souren Akiskal -- The long-term effects of depression / Giovanni B. Cassano & Carlo Maggini -- How do antidepressants work? / Ross J. Baldessarini -- Antidepressant treatments: regulation and adaptation of functional receptor systems / Fridolin Sulser -- Beta-adrenergic stimulants and depressive states / Pierre Simon [et al.] -- Cardiovascular effects of tricyclic antidepressants / Alexander H. Glassman -- Monoamine neuronal firing as a tool to predict antidepressant activity in animals / Albert Dresse & J. Scuvee-Moreau -- Psychopharmacology and suicidal behavior / Stuart A. Montgomery & Deirdre B. Montgomery --
Some clinical evidence supporting the possible involvement of neurotransmitter receptor sensitivity changes in the action of antidepressant drugs during longer-term treatment / Dennis L. Murphy [et al.] -- Circadian rhythm disturbances in affective illness and their modification by antidepressant drugs / Thomas A. Wehr, Anna Wirz-Justice, & Frederick K. Goodwin -- Withdrawal effects following lithium maintenance treatment / Helmfried Klein, Waldemar Greil, & Pola Engel-Sittenfeld -- Response to long-term lithium treatment: research studies and clinical implications / Paul Grof -- Clinical pharmacokinetics of alprazolam, a triazolo benzodiazpine / David J. Greenblatt [et al.] -- Clinical predictors of treatment response: an update / Robert O. Friedel -- Antidepressant drug therapy in the elderly / Jonathan O. Cole -- Treating depressed patients with medical problems / Leo E. Hollister -- Psychotherapy in comparison and in combination with pharmacotherapy for the depressed outpatient / Myrna M. Weissman.