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Mary Ann writes: I read your article and thought I would tell you of my experience with Glucophage. […]
First, before treatment actually starts, you and your doctor must be sure that you don’t have thyroid changes […]
Benzodiazepines should not be thrown off the edge of the earth. But they must be used carefully and […]
Here is the trick that makes this a story worth telling. Medications disappear more quickly at first, when […]
Summary When a patient with bipolar disorder is taking an antidepressant, and the decision is made to stop […]
Relevant Literature (In the order of their appearance; revised 3/2006) Introduction The Altshuler study is cited in almost […]
Revised 11/2014 The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raised a huge controversy when it required a […]
Do antidepressants work in bipolar disorder? Or do they make things worse? Here’s a review of the evidence.
This webpage describes the use of thyroid hormone as a treatment for rapid cycling bipolar disorder. If you […]
Lithium has shown such consistent effects in protecting neurons that several research groups have looked at it for […]
Carbamazepine can be a very effective mood stabilizer. You may not hear about it so much, because it […]
This is not very common if weight gain is not a problem, so usually my patients have avoided […]
How often should you do lab tests to monitor safety with these medications? Valproate (divalproex; Depakote) (The following […]
Question: How fast does the interaction take place? is it like carbamazepine, cranking up over a few weeks? […]
Update 2014: as is so often the case with transitions to generics, this issue has disappeared. We all […]
Lamotrigine is another anti-seizure medication we psychiatrists have borrowed from the neurologists. They have been using it now […]
This page summarizes two recent reviews of lamotrigine. It’s pretty technical stuff. I mainly wrote it to keep […]