Mark S. Bauer, MD, is in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and on staff in the Mental Health Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Providence, RI. Dr. Bauer's career-long focus has been on improving outcome in serious mental illness, particularly manic-depressive disorder. He has contributed advances by developing new assessment tools and new treatment modalities such as the use of high-dose thyroid hormone for rapid cycling. For the past decade, his main focus has been on studying interventions that take efficacious treatments and im...