Allan H Young Editor & Author

Jair C. Soares is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He is also Director of the UT Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders. Between 1998 and 2002, he co-edited the journal Bipolar Disorders: An International Journal of Psychiatry and Neurosciences and he is currently the joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Affective Disorders. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has also edited three textbooks: Brain Imaging Investigations on Affective Disorders, Bipolar Disorders: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications, and Handbook of Medical Psychiatry. Allan H. Young holds the Chair of Mood Disorders at King's College London where he is also Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders within the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Institute of Psychiatry. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed publications and a number of books about psychopharmacology and affective disorders, including Bipolar Disorders: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications and Practical Management of Bipolar Disorder. He is currently President of the International Society for Affective Disorders and Chair of the Psychopharmacology Special Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.