The efficacy of lamotrigine in rapid cycling and non-rapid cycling patients with bipolar disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 953-958

  Bowden, Charles L ^d   Calabrese, Joseph R ^d   McElroy, Susan L ^b   Rhodes, Linda J ^a   Keck Jr , Paul E ^b   Cookson, John ^c   Anderson, John ^d   Bolden Watson, Carolyn ^d   Ascher, John ^d   Monaghan, Eileen ^d   Zhou, Jing ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Lamotrigine; Rapid cycling

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORAL HYDRATE; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RHINITIS; SOMNOLENCE; TREMOR; VERTIGO;

ACTIVITY CYCLES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZINES;

EID: 0033561206     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00013-X     Document Type: Article

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