Mood stabilizers are a class of drugs used to prevent and reduce mood episodes such as mania and depression. Like any medication, there are both benefits and risks of taking mood stabilizers. Here are ...

January 3, 2008 — In a prospective observational study of 89 pregnant women with bipolar disorder, 71% had at least 1 mood episode recurrence during pregnancy. Compared with the women who continued ...

Long-term mood stabilizer use in bipolar disorder Mixed and psychotic features and comorbid anxiety disorder were also associated with poor treatment response. About one-third of patients receiving ...

This release is available in Chinese. Phenytoin is a well known antiepileptic agent widely used throughout the world. Recent clinical studies in patients with bipolar disorder have suggested that, as ...

Mood stabilizers protect against suicide and all-cause mortality in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), including natural mortality, with lithium emerging as the most protective agent, new research ...

"Our study suggests that adding antidepressant therapy to mood stabilizers or atypical antipsychotics after hospitalization for bipolar depression can prevent rehospitalization in the short- and ...

Medications, combined with therapy and lifestyle adjustments, are typically the first line of defense for managing bipolar depression. Commonly prescribed medications include mood stabilizers like ...

As of 2023, nearly 59.3 million adults in the U.S. received treatment or counseling for their mental health. one in five U.S. adults experiences mental illness each year, and one in 20 experiences ...

In this article, we review the published brain-imaging findings in bipolar disorder, with a particular focus on available studies that attempted to characterize the in vivo brain correlates of ...