Adjunct treatments for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: What to try when you are out of ideas

Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Torrey, E Fuller ^a   Davis, John M ^b  

^a Stanley Medical Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Celecoxib; Estrogen; Folate; Minocycline; Mirtazapine; Omega 3 fatty acids; Pramipexole; Pregnenolone

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELECOXIB; CIMICOXIB; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FISH OIL; FOLIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; METHYLFOLATE; MINOCYCLINE; MIRTAZAPINE; PLACEBO; PRAMIPEXOLE; PREGNENOLONE; RALOXIFENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BENZOTHIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN; MIANSERIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PRAMIPEXOL; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

AKATHISIA; APPETITE; ATAXIA; BIPOLAR DEPRESSION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG CAPSULE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEVER; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NAUSEA; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PAIN; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; POSITIVE SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIDE EFFECT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINUSITIS; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOMNOLENCE; TABLET; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT DURATION; UTERUS CANCER; WEIGHT GAIN; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ASPIRIN; BENZOTHIAZOLES; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; ESTROGENS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MIANSERIN; MINOCYCLINE; PREGNENOLONE; PYRAZOLES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SULFONAMIDES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 84857477820     PISSN: 19351232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.5.4.5     Document Type: Review

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