What is the drug that is effective for treating bipolar disorder?

Answer 1

Mood stabilizers(anticonvulsants. are used to treat bipolar disorder. Depakote,(valproic acid and its derivatives) Lamictal,(lamotrigine) Neurontin( gabapentin), Trileptal(oxcarbazepine), Tegretol(carbamazepine) Antipsychotics are also used. Geodon(ziprasidone), Zyprexa(olanzapine), Seroquel(quetiapine), Abilify, Risperdal(risperidone)... Antipsychotics are also used to treat schizophrenia.. Schizophrenia is a mental illness. It is a psychosis... Which means that people who have it lose touch with reality... They have hallucinations. Which mean that they hear or see things that are not really there or being said. They have delusions.. .Which means that they meant believe they are the President of the United States or Benjamin Franklin or something like that. They have paranoia... They think people are out to get them or that they are watching them. They are emotionally apathetic. they are socially withdrawn..... They think that they are being prescuted. They have incoherent speech.... They have catanoia... which means that they stay in one spot for a really long period of time..... It is caused by the neurotransmitter dopamine... It happens when the brain produces too much dopamine....

Answer 2

Lithium, the lightest metal.

• For hydrogen bombs, it is in the form of the compound Lithium Deuteride, a metallic hydride.
• For treating Bipolar disorder, it is usually in the form of the compound Lithium Carbonate, a salt.

Answer 3

A combination of mood stabilizing agents with antidepressants, antipsychotics, and anticonvulsants is used to regulate manic and depressive episodes.Adjunct treatments are used in conjunction with a long-term pharmaceutical treatment plan.

Answer 4

There is not one particular drug that is effective. A number of different drugs, in several different classes, may be used depending on patient need and reaction. Bipolar patients most often receive a cocktail of drugs from the following types.

Mood Stabilizers

The various salts of Lithium are effective in stabilizing mood (Lithium Carbonate, Lithium Citrate, etc).

Various anti-convulsants drugs typically used in the treatment of Eplilepsy (a related disorder) also are effective mood stabilizers. (Carbamazepine, Valproic Acid, Oxcarbazepine, etc.)

Anti-Depressants

For patients who have significant problems with Depressive states that mood stabilizers alone cannot control.

Non-SSRI type anti-depressants are favored as SSRI types, though occasionally used in crisis states, have a significant risk of triggering manias. Buproprion is often the non-SSRI drug of choice.

Neuroleptics

Patients with severe manias, particularly those displaying psychotic features are often given Neuroleptic (anti-psychotic) clas drugs.

Typical neuroleptics such as Haloperidol are often administered to actutely manic patients.

Maintenance treament generally entails use of atypical neuroleptics (Risperidone, Olanzapine, Quetiapine, etc).

Answer 5

Lithium is used to treat bi-polar disorder.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Lithium carbonate

Answer 8

Lithium.

Answer 9

lithium