This volume presents two meeting reports from recent scientific conferences and a third paper of draft consensus guidelines for treating Shwachman-Diamond syndrome.

The first meeting report, -Advances in Bipolar Disorder: Selected Sessions from the International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, - covers the 9th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder (ICBD) held in Pittsburgh, PA, June 9-11, 2011. The conference focused on a number of important issues concerning the diagnosis of bipolar disorders across the life span, advances in neuroscience, treatment strategies for bipolar...