Pharmacotherapy of acute mania: Monotherapy or combination therapy with mood stabilizers and antipsychotics?

CNS Drugs

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 221-227

  Grande, Iria ^a   Vieta, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANQUILIZER;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; HUMAN;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; TRANQUILIZING AGENTS;

EID: 84940005721     PISSN: 11727047     EISSN: 11791934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40263-015-0235-1     Document Type: Review

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