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A bottle of lithium capsules. Lithium is the prototypical mood stabilizer.

A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder and the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder.

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Mood stabilizer

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A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder...

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Bipolar disorder

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though blood tests or medical imaging can rule out other problems. Mood stabilizers—lithium and certain anticonvulsants such as valproate and carbamazepine...

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Stabilizer

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Look up stabilizer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stabilizer, stabiliser, stabilisation or stabilization may refer to: Stabilizer (chemistry), a substance...

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List of psychotropic medications

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class Depakote (valproic acid/sodium valproate) – an antiepileptic and mood stabilizer used to treat bipolar disorder, neuropathic pain and others; sometimes...

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Psychiatric medication

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mood stabilizers is not well understood. Common non-antipsychotic mood stabilizers include: Lithium (Lithobid, Eskalith), the oldest mood stabilizer Anticonvulsants...

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Treatment of bipolar disorder

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medications called mood stabilizers, which are used to prevent or control episodes of mania or depression. Medications from several classes have mood stabilizing...

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List of antidepressants

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clinically approved prescription drugs used to augment antidepressants or mood stabilizers, by pharmacological and/or structural classification. Chemical/generic...

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Bipolar II disorder

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receive the proper treatment. Antidepressant use, in the absence of mood stabilizers, is correlated with worsening BP-II symptoms. Multiple factors contribute...

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Lithium citrate

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citrate (Li3C6H5O7) is a lithium salt of citric acid that is used as a mood stabilizer in psychiatric treatment of manic states and bipolar disorder. There...

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Medication

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Antiseptics: prevention of germ growth near burns, cuts,and wounds Mood stabilizers: lithium and valproate Hormone replacements: Premarin Oral contraceptives:...

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Aripiprazole

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often used in combination with an additional mood stabilizer; however, co-administration with a mood stabilizer increases the risk of extrapyramidal side...

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Management of borderline personality disorder

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Mood stabilizers are anticonvulsant drugs used for both epilepsy and reduction in mood variations in patients with excessive and often dangerous mood...

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Kleptomania

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treatments using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), mood stabilizers and opioid receptor antagonists, and other antidepressants along with...

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Lithium

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established metabolic function. Lithium-based drugs are useful as a mood stabilizer and antidepressant in the treatment of mental illness such as bipolar...

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Antipsychotic

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other psychotic disorders. They are also the mainstay, together with mood stabilizers, in the treatment of bipolar disorder. Moreover, they are also used...

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Mood disorder

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alone. Bipolar disorder medications can consist of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anticonvulsants and/or lithium. Lithium specifically has been proven...

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Mania

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manic episode of bipolar disorder involves the utilization of either a mood stabilizer (carbamazepine, valproate, lithium, or lamotrigine) or an atypical...

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Oxcarbazepine

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disorder. Research has investigated the use of oxcarbazepine as a mood stabilizer in bipolar disorder, with further evidence needed to fully assess its...

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

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during treatment with an antidepressant alone and in combination with a mood stabilizer". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 171 (10): 1067–1073. doi:10.1176/appi...

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Cariprazine

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Cariprazine, sold under the brand names Vraylar, Reagila and Symvenu among others, is an atypical antipsychotic developed by Gedeon Richter, which is used...

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Cyclothymia

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are not found. Treatment is generally achieved with counseling and mood stabilizers such as lithium. It is estimated that 0.4–1% of people have cyclothymia...

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Priapism

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clozapine), antidepressants (most notably trazodone), anti-convulsant and mood stabilizer drugs such as sodium valproate. Anticoagulants, cantharides (Spanish...

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Schizoaffective disorder

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treatment is antipsychotic medication combined with either or both of mood stabilizers and antidepressants. There is growing concern by some researchers that...

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Histone deacetylase inhibitor

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changes. HDIs have a long history of use in psychiatry and neurology as mood stabilizers and anti-epileptics, such as valproic acid. Since at least 2003 they...

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Lithium bromide

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Lithium bromide (LiBr) is a chemical compound of lithium and bromine. Its extreme hygroscopic character makes LiBr useful as a desiccant in certain air...

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John Cade

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psychiatrist who in 1948 discovered the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder, then known as manic depression...

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