Treatment of Acute Mania with Modafinil Monotherapy

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Schoenknecht, Peter ^a   Olbrich, Sebastian ^a   Sander, Christian ^a   Spindler, Peter ^a   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MODAFINIL;

ADULT; AGITATION; ALERTNESS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANDIOSE DELUSION; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MANIA; MOOD DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SLEEP DISORDER; THORAX PAIN; WEAKNESS;

BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951877733     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.12.021     Document Type: Letter

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