The past decade has witnessed an extraordinary expansion of treatments available for bipolar disorder. Ten years ago, lithium was the only approved agent for this condition. Since that time, carbamazepine, valproate and olanzapine have received regulatory approval for the acute treatment of mania. C
Guidelines for treatment of bipolar disorder
โ Scribed by Ellen B. Dennehy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 284 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1523-3812
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