@article{ref1,
title="[Acute and long-term treatment for bipolar depression]",
journal="Nervenarzt",
year="2010",
author="Grunze, H. and Dargel, S.",
volume="81",
number="5",
pages="539-548",
abstract="Bipolar depression is linked with substantial burden and a high suicide risk, making a rapid and highly efficacious treatment mandatory. However, similar to mania, aspects of long-term treatment should already be considered at treatment initiation. With comparable efficacy, drugs with a beneficial safety and tolerability profile should be preferred. Additional psychotherapy can also noticeably improve both short- and long-term outcome of bipolar depression. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) still has its place in severe, treatment-resistant bipolar depression. Whereas ECT is a domain of specialised centres, correct diagnosis and both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment initiation are essential tasks of primary care practitioners and secondary care psychiatrists.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0028-2804",
doi="10.1007/s00115-009-2851-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00115-009-2851-9"
}