title: Affective disorders: basic principles regarding clinical course, long-term therapeutic and prophylactic strategies.
abstract: Affective disorders, mainly depressive and bipolar afflictions are life-long recurrent diseases and require constant treatment and prophylaxis. Both acute and maintenance therapeutic strategies have to be applied to the special subgroups of the depressive and bipolar spectrum. Despite the development of new pharmacological agents and psychotherapeutical settings, the long-term prognosis, especially functional outcome, did not change considerably in comparison to past decades.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06097 Halle/Saale, Germany. andreas.marneros@medizin.uni-halle.de
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authors.lastname: Marneros
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy*; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D016896:Treatment Outcome