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Health Encyclopedia: Bipolar Disorder Highlights

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Drug Approval

Quetiapine (Seroquel) has been approved for treatment of bipolar depression. Quetiapine is now the only drug approved for treating both manic and depressive states of bipolar disorder.

Drug Warning

The anti-seizure drug lamotrigine (Lamictal) can cause cleft lip and palate birth defects if taken during the first trimester of pregnancy.

Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents

The course of bipolar disorder is different in young people than in adults, indicates a 2006 study...

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Expert & Community Posts

Is It Bipolar? Or Is It Something Else?

By John McManamy , Health Expert

...with Axis I illnesses tend to respond to psychiatric meds reinforces the belief that these... Read more »

Depression and Migraine Linked

By Teri Robert , Health Expert

A growing body of medical literature has shown a connection between depression and other mental... Read more »

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...haphazard and degrading technique not fit to be termed a treatment. For others it represents an... Read more »

3/3/08 #8 - Medication for migraine associated vertigo?

By Ask the Clinician , Health Expert

...recognized expert in the fields of headache and Migraine treatment and pain treatment. Each... Read more »

Depression, Adolescents, and Antidepressants

By Teri Robert , Health Expert

...(escitalopram oxalate) for the acute and maintenance treatment of major depressive disorder... Read more »

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Health Guide

Fibromyalgia: Medications

To date, the FDA has not approved any drug for specific treatment of fibromyalgia. The first choice in drug treatments usually consists of an antidepressant or a muscle relaxant. The goal... Read more »

Depression: Suicide and Complications

...episodes of recurrence and improvement. Approximately one-third of patients with a single episode of major depression will have another episode within 1 year after discontinuing treatment, and... Read more »

Multiple Sclerosis: Other Treatments

Other TreatmentsNontraditional TreatmentsNearly 60% of patients try some form of nontraditional remedies. Research on any benefits is slim and there may be some danger with many remedies commonly... Read more »

Headaches: Cluster: Medications

Preventive MedicationsCalcium-Channel BlockersCalcium-channel blockers, commonly used to treat heart disease, are important drugs for preventing cluster headaches. Verapamil (Calan) is the standard... Read more »

Epilepsy: Causes

...can damage the brain's tissue. Hydrocephalus itself is not commonly known to cause seizures, but its treatment, which involves insertion of a shunt, may. The shunt is a device that drains the... Read more »

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