Lamictal (lamotrigine) has been approved! The only problem is that few people can quite comprehend what it's been approved for.

Topamax (topiramate), oddly enough, is a derivative of fructose. It is strange that one of the very few psychotropics to cause weight loss is closely related to sugar, but there you have it. It is only approved as adjunctive therapy for seizure treatment by the FDA.

Topics: Bipolar Disorder

Suddenly, we all have a colleague who is prescribing Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) for bipolar disorder, and who is claiming to have fabulous success.

Topics: Bipolar Disorder | Practice Tools and Tips

Dr. Baldassano, as the Director of the Bipolar Outpatient Clinic of U Penn, how many patients with bipolar disorder do you typically evaluate in a given week?

In the late 1800’s, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was unhappy with the primitive state of psychiatric diagnosis. So he set up shop at the Heidelberg Clinic and proceeded to study hundreds of patients longitudinally.