Absolutely. Schizophrenia patients may also suffer from Bipolar disorder and recent studies show the two psychiatric disorders may share a common genetic cause. Epilepsy is over twice as common among people with Schizophrenia or Bipolar disorder than those without either disorder.
He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which caused extreme mood swings.
Depakote is an antipsychotic, mood stabilizer. They mainly describe it for Bipolar Disorder/Schizophrenia. It's almost related to Lithium which is also for Bipolar Disorder/Schizophrenia.
It is for Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia have some symptoms that are quite similar. The main difference between these two is that schizophrenia's characterized by hallucinations and delusions while bipolar disorder is mainly manic behavior followed by periods of depression. Typically, bipolar behaviors are fairly distinguishable from schizophrenia, but there are some rare cases of schizo-affective disorder which is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder where there is a mood component accompanied by schizophrenia. In short, bipolar symptoms can be somewhat similar to schizophrenic symptoms, but unless the individual has schizo-affective disorder the symptoms won't be identical enough to confuse the two disorders with one another.
Olaziapine atypical antipsychotic used in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
No
A disorder that affects your brain in any way such as ADD, ADHD, Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, and/or Psychosis.
A disorder that affects your brain in any way such as ADD, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, and/or Psychosis.
Temporal lobe epilepsy and bipolar disorder
Seroquel is an anti-psychotic drug used for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
NO. Zyprexa (olanzapine) is an atypical antipsychotic primarily used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (mixed/manic), agitation due to schizophrenia and bipolar, and for bipolar disorder (depressed state). It is occasionally used to treat treatment resistant depression, anxiety, insomnia, and anorexia.
Depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia