Bipolar disorders: roots and evolution -- The soft bipolar spectrum: footnotes to Kraepelin on the interface of hypomania, temperament and depression -- The mixed bipolar disorders -- Rapid-cycling bipolar disorder -- Bipolar schizoaffective disorders -- Bipolar disorders during pregnancy, post partum and in menopause -- Adolescent-onset bipolar illness -- Bipolar disorder in old age -- Temperament and personality types in bipolar patients a historical review -- Interactional styles in bipolar disorder -- Comorbidity in bipolar affective disorder -- The genetic epidemiology of bipolar disorder -- Genetics of bipolar affective disorder -- The biology of bipolar disorder -- Cyclicity and manic-depressive illness -- Bipolar shifts as disorders of the bi-hemispheric integration of language: implications for the genetic origins of the psychotic continuum -- Mood stabilizers in bipolar disorder -- Antipsychotics in acute mania -- Antidepressant treatment of bipolar depression -- The prognosis of bipolar disorders: course and outcome -- The costs of treatment of bipolar disorder -- Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: Unifying the concept of psychosis through brain morphology -- On entities and continuities of bipolar disorders