ECT for acute mania

Treatment guidelines for acute mania

Nowadays, psychiatrists have a wide range of treatment choices to treat acute mania. Introduction of atypical antipsychotics in the last decade has increased the range of available treatments. A good number of double-blind randomized clinical trials have supported the efficacy of several atypicals, (aripiprazole, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, ziprasidone) both as monotherapy and in combi...

Quetiapine for acute mania in bipolar disorder.

PURPOSE The efficacy and tolerability of quetiapine in the treatment of acute mania were reviewed. SUMMARY Five randomized, placebo-controlled trials involving quetiapine as monotherapy or adjunct therapy in combination with either divalproex or lithium in the treatment of bipolar mania in either adolescents or adults were identified and reviewed. The primary outcome measure used in the trial...

Acute Mania Following Simple Ovariotomy

topiramate add-on lithium carbonate for treatment of acute mania

objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of adjunctive topiramate in treating acute mania. methods: in this study which was a double-blinded randomized clinical trial, 46 bipolar patients in manic episode, were treated with lithium carbonate and topiramate versus lithium carbonate and placebo and treatment responses were assessed by young mania rating scale (ymrs) weekly....

Cincinnati criteria for mixed mania and suicidality in patients with acute mania.

The association between suicidality and diagnoses of mixed mania, as defined using both DSM-IV and Cincinnati criteria, was studied in 576 consecutive manic inpatients. Of the whole sample, 51 (8.9%) had suicidal ideation and 13 (2.3%) attempted suicide during the index episode. Suicidality was significantly more frequent in patients with a diagnosis of mixed mania, whether the diagnosis was ma...