In October last year, the FDA approved Seroquel for treating bipolar depression. Currently, there are three medications on the market associated with treating bipolar depression, plus an old standby with some demonstrated effect for this phase of the illness. Now is a good time to review bipolar depression, and how precisely these meds (as well as antidepressants) are supposed to work.
This series of blogs is in three installments. Part I discusses bipolar depression and antidepressants. Parts...
Treating Bipolar Depression
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Treating Bipolar Depression: Psychiatry is Changing
By John McManamy, Health Expert
Yesterday, after a deliberate sabbatical, I put out my first Newsletter of the year. The theme was "treating bipolar depression." To... Read more »
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Treating Bipolar Depression: Part III
By John McManamy, Health Expert
Let’s review some of the main points from my two previous blogs: On one hand, bipolar depression appears to be a different animal from... Read more »
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Treating Bipolar Depression: Part II
By John McManamy, Health Expert
Psychiatry, like the rest of medicine, divides treating illnesses into two phases. The acute phase involves the illness as it first... Read more »
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Depression and Bipolar Disorder Stoke Creativity
By Christopher Lukas, Health Expert
When I left my analyst’s office for the last time, way back in 1963, he told me one thing to keep me going. I was heading back to New... Read more »
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Treating Mania
By John McManamy, Health Expert
A couple of months ago, in the course of replacing many of my articles on mcmanweb, I found myself writing this: I would emphasize that... Read more »
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Clinical trial: Seroquel versus Paxil in treating bipolar depr...
This is a study to compare the effectiveness of Seroquel and Paxil in treating bipolar depression, and to determine if Seroquel maintains its... Read more »
Bipolar Depression: What are the treatments and drugs used to ...
Bipolar disorder treatment includes medication and non-drug therapy. The good news is that most patients respond to treatment and are able to control... Read more »
Depression Issues: How is depression treated?
Depression treatment often incorporates anti-depressant medicine and psychotherapy. Psychotherapy alone, involving cognitive and behavioral awareness... Read more »
News Break: New Skin Patch for Treating Depression
The FDA has approved EMSAM (selegiline), a transdermal patch, for the treatment of major depression. Selegeline is a MAOI originally used to treat... Read more »
FDA approves Seroquel XR to treat bipolar disorder
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Seroquel XR for the treatment of bipolar disorder. The approval of this extended-release form of... Read more »
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