Treatment of bipolar disorders must address maintenance objectives. Since the year 2000, several large, blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled studies have been published analyzing background and ...

Background The major diagnostic classifications consider mania as a uni-dimensional illness. Factor analytic studies of acute mania are fewer compared to schizophrenia and depression. Evidence from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For those with mania, sleep duration at admission was negatively correlated with length of hospitalization. The ...

This post is offered as a concise overview of conventional psychiatric approaches to the treatment of bipolar disorder. Future posts will review the evidence for complementary and alternative ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Antipsychotics are far more effective than mood stabilizers in tackling acute manic episodes, researchers found, and Eli Lilly's Zyprexa, Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal and generic ...

A second meta-analysis of antimanic treatments, conducted by Yildiz et al, 6 focused on direct comparisons of individual medications and on effects of classes of medication. Second-generation ...

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VNDA) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Fanapt ® (iloperidone) tablets for the acute ...

Why your bipolar treatment may include multiple meds — and how to ensure each one still makes sense. Over several years of medical management of a chronic illness such as bipolar disorder, it is ...

A new clinical trial conducted by researchers in Canada has found that wearing blue-blocking glasses did not significantly reduce symptoms of mania in hospitalized patients when compared to control ...

Hayes et al 12 conducted one of the most recent large studies to compare lithium with newer second-generation antipsychotics as maintenance monotherapy for bipolar disorder. The authors concluded that ...