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Peter C. Whybrow
Researcher at Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Publications - 183
Citations - 10544
Peter C. Whybrow is an academic researcher from Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bipolar disorder & Mood. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 176 publications receiving 9643 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter C. Whybrow include University of Pennsylvania & University of California, Los Angeles.
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The National Depressive and Manic-depressive Association (DMDA) survey of bipolar members
TL;DR: The treatment of bipolar illness could be enhanced by public health efforts to promote early diagnosis and treatment; ensuring adequate trials of mood-stabilizers for patients with frequent recurrences; further research on bipolar disorder with prominent anxiety symptoms; and improved access to mental health care.
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World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders, Part 1: Update 2013 on the Acute and Continuation Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders
Michael Bauer,Andrea Pfennig,Emanuel Severus,Peter C. Whybrow,Jules Angst,Hans-Jürgen Möller +5 more
TL;DR: This 2013 update of the practice guidelines for the biological treatment of unipolar depressive disorders was developed by an international Task Force of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry to produce a series of practice recommendations that are clinically and scientifically meaningful based on the available evidence.
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World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for Biological Treatment of Unipolar Depressive Disorders in Primary Care.
Michael Bauer,Tom Bschor,Andrea Pfennig,Peter C. Whybrow,Jules Angst,Marcio Versiani,Hans-Jürgen Möller,Wfsbp Task Force on Unipolar Depressive Disorders +7 more
TL;DR: These practical guidelines for the biological treatment of unipolar depressive disorders in primary care settings were developed by an international Task Force of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry and offer practical recommendations for general practitioners encountering patients with these conditions.
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Independent assessment of manic and depressive symptoms by self-rating. Scale characteristics and implications for the study of mania.
Mark S. Bauer,Paul Crits-Christoph,William A. Ball,Edward Dewees,Thomas W. McAllister,Peter Alahi,John S. Cacciola,Peter C. Whybrow +7 more
TL;DR: Bimodal distribution of scores of manic patients on the Well-Being and Depression Index subscales substantiated earlier findings that euphoric mood is not an essential feature of mania and proposed that variables related to activation level and not to mood state constitute the core characteristics of the manic syndrome.
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A Hypothesis of Thyroid-Catecholamine-Receptor Interaction: Its Relevance to Affective Illness
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that the modulation by thyroid hormones of the beta-adrenergic receptor response to catecholamines may contribute to these effects of depression and mania.