Vol. 26 (Suppl 1) 2005 Neuro endocrinology letters

Maintenance treatment of bipolar disorders.

: Conventional antipsychotic drugs, although efficacious in the treatment of mania, have not demonstrated a significant usefulness in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. This has primarily been due to a tendency to induce depressive symptoms and depressive recurrences in this group of patients in the course of long-term admin.....