Bipolar Disorder - Drug therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Lithium response across generations.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To describe and integrate observations from bipolar patients responsive to lithium stabilization and their children. METHOD: Selected findings are described from the clinical and biological investigations of adults meeting research ... Read more...

Asenapine.

30 Oct 2009 In August 2009, asenapine (Saphris; Schering-Plough) was approved by the US FDA for the acute treatment of schizophrenia and manic or mixed episodes associated with bipolar I disorder in ... Read more...

Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment.

30 Oct 2009 Research on postpartum mood disorders has focused primarily on major depressive disorder, bipolar I disorder, and puerperal psychosis and has largely ignored or neglected bipolar II disorder. Hypomanic symptoms are common after delivery but ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Bipolar Disorder - Drug therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Lithium response across generations. 30 Oct 2009
• Asenapine. 30 Oct 2009
• Bipolar II postpartum depression: Detection, diagnosis, and treatment. 30 Oct 2009
• Closing the gap between guidelines for bipolar disorder treatment and clinical practice. 30 Oct 2009
• Trial that pays patients to take antipsychotic drugs comes under attack. 10 Oct 2009
• Lithium-induced kidney problems. Serious problems are unusual, but monitoring is key. 29 Sep 2009
• Enhancing multiyear guideline concordance for bipolar disorder through collaborative care. 29 Sep 2009
• Combination treatment with quetiapine in bipolar disorder patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Maintenance treatment for patients with bipolar disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Asenapine approved for treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Asenapine. 30 Aug 2009
• An initial report of a new biological marker for bipolar disorder: P85 evoked brain potential. 30 Aug 2009
• The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) consensus guidelines for the safety monitoring of bipolar disorder treatments. 30 Aug 2009
• Treatment of bipolar disorders and metabolic syndrome: implications for primary care. 30 Aug 2009
• Are psychostimulants a treatment option in mania? 30 Aug 2009
• Treatment options for children and adolescents with bipolar disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Re-feeding-induced hypomania in an anorexia nervosa patient with hyperthyroidism. 30 Aug 2009
• FDA panel OKs 3 antipsychotic drugs for pediatric use, cautions against overuse. 24 Aug 2009
• Carbamazepine-induced hyperammonemia. 13 Aug 2009
• Mood stabilization and destabilization during acute and continuation phase treatment for bipolar I disorder with lamotrigine or placebo. 9 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Bipolar Disorder'

Definition: A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

Descriptor UI: D001714

Alternative terms: Bipolar Disorder; Bipolar Disorders; Disorder, Bipolar; Psychosis, Manic-Depressive; Psychosis, Manic Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychosis; Manic Depressive Psychosis; Affective Psychosis, Bipolar; Bipolar Affective Psychosis; Psychoses, Bipolar Affective; Psychosis, Bipolar Affective; Psychoses, Manic-Depressive; Manic-Depressive Psychoses; Psychoses, Manic Depressive; Mania; Manias; Manic State; Manic States; State, Manic; States, Manic; Depression, Bipolar; Bipolar Depression; Manic Disorder; Disorder, Manic; Manic Disorders;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150.150;

History Note: 81(63)