Historical Perspective

Fountoulakis, Kostas N.

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“…Plato (424–348 BC) and Aristotles (384–322 BC) further elaborated on the concept and Aristotle was the first to describe accurately the affections of desire, anger, fear, courage, envy, joy, hatred, and pity. Later, Galen (131–201 AD), Themison of Laodicea (1st century BC) and Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2nd century AD) as well as Arab scholars and especially Avicenna (980–1037) further elaborated on the concept of mood disorders ( Fountoulakis, 2015b ).…”

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The International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) Treatment Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder in Adults (CINP-BD-2017), Part 1: Background and Methods of the Development of Guidelines

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Young

Yatham

et al. 2016

IJNPPY

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Background:This paper includes a short description of the important clinical aspects of Bipolar Disorder with emphasis on issues that are important for the therapeutic considerations, including mixed and psychotic features, predominant polarity, and rapid cycling as well as comorbidity.Methods:The workgroup performed a review and critical analysis of the literature concerning grading methods and methods for the development of guidelines.Results:The workgroup arrived at a consensus to base the development of the guideline on randomized controlled trials and related meta-analyses alone in order to follow a strict evidence-based approach. A critical analysis of the existing methods for the grading of treatment options was followed by the development of a new grading method to arrive at efficacy and recommendation levels after the analysis of 32 distinct scenarios of available data for a given treatment option.Conclusion:The current paper reports details on the design, method, and process for the development of CINP guidelines for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder. The rationale and the method with which all data and opinions are combined in order to produce an evidence-based operationalized but also user-friendly guideline and a specific algorithm are described in detail in this paper.

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