title: [Therapy of affective disorders].
abstract: The article presents a brief review of therapies of the affective disorders. Two basic approaches are used: psychotherapeutic and biological, which comprises mainly pharmacotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy. The treatment may be divided into 3 stages as concerns the time course: acute treatment, continuation treatment, prophylactic treatment. Therapeutic strategies for depressive episode, recurrent depressive disorder, manic episode, bipolar affective disorder, dysthymia and cyclothymia are mentioned in the text.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lestina
mesh_terms: D000341:Affective Disorders, Psychotic / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000628:therapy*