Bipolar Disorders

The Official Journal of The International Society for Bipolar Disorders

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

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 20/156 Clinical Neurology; 51/219 Neurosciences; 22/101 Psychiatry
Impact Factor: 3.959

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.

TopNews and Announcements

Online Open
Bipolar Disorders can now offer authors to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee. Read more.

Publish Supporting Material to Your Research in the Form of Tables, Figures, Video and Audio-Files
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Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).

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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. The following articles are now available for you to read, search, and cite from, free of charge:

The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) consensus guidelines for the safety monitoring of bipolar disorder treatments
Felicity Ng, Oommen K Mammen, Ingeborg Wilting et al.
Volume 11 Issue 6

Comparison of manic and depressive symptoms between children and adolescents with bipolar spectrum disorders
Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, Michael Strober et al.
Volume 11 Issue 1

Neurocognitive impairment in bipolar disorder patients: functional implications
Aliza P Wingo, Philip D Harvey and Ross J Baldessarini
Volume 11 Issue 2

Medicating mood with maintenance in mind: bipolar depression pharmacotherapy
Gin S Malhi, Danielle Adams and Michael Berk
Volume 11 Issue s2

White matter abnormalities in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia detected using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging
Jessika E Sussmann, G Katherine S Lymer, James McKirdy et al.
Volume 11 Issue 1

Antipsychotic agents in the treatment of bipolar mania
Mauricio Tohen and Eduard Vieta
Volume 11 Issue s2

Earliest symptoms discriminating juvenile-onset bipolar illness from ADHD
David A Luckenbaugh, Robert L Findling, Gabriele S Leverich et al.
Volume 11 Issue 4

Conceptualizing impulsivity and risk taking in bipolar disorder: importance of history of alcohol abuse
M Kathleen Holmes, Carrie E Bearden, Marcela Barguil et al.
Volume 11 Issue 1