Clinical experience using gabapentin adjunctively in patients with a history of mania or hypomania

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-233

  Knoll, James ^a   Stegman, Kristine ^a   Suppes, Trisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsants; Bipolar disorder; Gabapentin; Mood lability; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLOZAPINE; FLUOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; LORAZEPAM; PAROXETINE; PERPHENAZINE; SERTRALINE; THYROXINE; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; VALPROIC ACID; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; MALE; MANIA; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEDATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

ACETIC ACIDS; ADULT; AMINES; ANTICONVULSANTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031980513     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0327(98)00027-5     Document Type: Article

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