John Cade
1912–1980 · AustraliaLithium
Introduced lithium into modern psychiatry.
Eight voices who shaped mood-stabiliser science, neuroimaging and clinical guidelines for bipolar disorder.
Portraits resolve via Wikimedia when licences allow.
People
Mogens Schou
1918–2005 · DenmarkLithium trials
Rigorous evidence for lithium prophylaxis.
Emil Kraepelin
1856–1926 · GermanyManic-depressive
Classic nosology separating manic-depressive illness.
Kay Redfield Jamison
b. 1946 · USALived expertise
Clinician–scholar bridging science and experience.
Mary Phillips
20th–21st c. · UK/USANeuroimaging
Influential imaging work on bipolar emotion circuitry.
Guy Goodwin
b. 1947 · UKGuidelines
Evidence-based psychopharmacology guidance.
Ellen Frank
b. 1944 · USAIPSRT
Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy pioneer.
Frederick Goodwin
1936–2020 · USABipolar science
Major syntheses of manic-depressive illness biology and care.
Read primary papers; this page is not care.
Sources & research
- Bipolar disorderClinical primer on bipolar disorder.DOI
- A critical appraisal of neuroimaging studies of bipolar disorder: toward a new conceptualization of underlying neural circuitryCritical neuroimaging synthesis for bipolar circuitry.DOI
- Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: Revised third edition recommendations from the British Association for PsychopharmacologyEvidence-based treatment guidelines.DOI
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