Speaker 2: Konstantinos N Fountoulakis, Greece

Abstract

Title: The Collegium International Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder in adults Abstract The CINP assembled a workgroup to develop guidelines and a precise algorithm for Bipolar disorder (BD). The works are still in progress and the actual guideline is expected to be published within 2016. These guidelines will be based on hard data and were intented to be as evidence based as possible. A new system of grading the evidence was developed. Monotherapy was given priority over combination therapy. The first approach led to draft detailed guidance for each phase of BD in a five-step way, by taking into consideration the specific clinical features if possible. The second includes a very precise algorithm. When released, the CINP guidelines will be the most recent fully updated and fully evidence based guidelines on the treatment of BD. Many issues need further study, data are rare and insufficient and many questions remain unanswered. The most important and still unmet need is to be able to merge all the guidelines which concern different phases of the illness into a single one, and in this way consider BD as a single unified disorder, which is the real world fact. However todate the research data do not permit such a unified approach.