An open prospective study of zonisamide in acute bipolar depression

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-388

  Ghaemi, S Nassir ^a   Zablotsky, Benjamin ^b,c   Filkowski, Megan M ^a   Dunn, Robert T ^b,c   Pardo, Tamara B ^b,c   Isenstein, Emily ^d   Baldassano, Claudia F ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bipolar Disorder Research Program   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZONISAMIDE;

ACNE; ADULT; AKATHISIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BLURRED VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; COORDINATION DISORDER; DECREASED APPETITE; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; HYPOMANIA; INSOMNIA; LIBIDO DISORDER; MALE; MANIA RATING SCALE; MIGRAINE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHEDULE OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SWEATING; TREMOR; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOXAZOLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; OUTPATIENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 33746892987     PISSN: 02710749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jcp.0000227702.72117.f5     Document Type: Article

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