• Antipsychotics/Antimanic Agents. (toprx.com)
  • Conventional antipsychotics are effective antimanic agents, but their long-term use tends to induce secondary depressive symptoms in bipolar patients. (pharmacytimes.com)
  • Atypical antipsychotics are increasingly being consideredfor this bipolar subpopulation because of their efficacy as antimanic agents, and because they areless likely to cause as many or as severe adverse events as conventional antipsychotics. (psychiatrist.com)
  • 3 Although Kraepelin's clinical description of bipolar disorder (BD) remains the cornerstone of today's clinical description, more modern conceptions of bipolar disorder have differentiated manic depressive illness from recurrent depression, 4 partly based on differences in family history and the relative specificity of lithium carbonate and mood stabilizing anticonvulsants as anti-manic and prophylactic agents in bipolar disorder. (hensparty.org)
  • Lithium Carbonate is an antimanic agent. (medicijnen-apo.nl)
  • Lithium is in a class of medications called antimanic agents. (cadmed-bb.com)
  • Lithium Carbonate is an antimanic agent used for the treatment of manic depressive illness in which a. (247safegenerics.com)
  • Lithium Carbonate is an antimanic agent used for the treatment of manic depressive illness in which a person experiences fluctuating mood swings from depression to excitement. (1rx-pharmacy.com)
  • Lithium Carbonate is an antimanic agent that works by altering the working of certain chemicals in the brain. (1rx-pharmacy.com)
  • Although single drugs in one or two classes were available for the treatment of depression several decades ago, multiple therapeutic modalities now exist, often with many agents within each class. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • There is a need for randomised controlled trials examining the therapeutic potential of this agent in bipolar disorder. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There have been few major 'breakthroughs' in the treatment of BD depression, and until recently, few agents that work via novel mechanisms of action to exert therapeutic effects. (bvsalud.org)
  • More careful assessment of the efficacy of an agent at early and regular intervals, with early revision of the treatment modality if it is not optimal, is an important new guideline that applies not only to somatic treatments, but also to psychotherapeutic approaches and combination psychotherapy-pharmacotherapy when treatment is not proceeding optimally. (beatcfsandfms.org)
  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antimanic drugs in acute mania: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis. (ox.ac.uk)
  • OBJECTIVES: To assess the efficacy and acceptability of tiagabine, relative to placebo, and other agents in the prevention or attenuation, or both, of episodes of bipolar disorder in adults. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We did a multiple-treatments meta-analysis, which accounted for both direct and indirect comparisons, to assess the effects of all antimanic drugs. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Despite this, there are few effective treatments for BD depression, with only a handful of atypical anti-psychotics and inconsistent evidence for traditional mood stabilizing agents. (bvsalud.org)
  • Buspar is an antianxiety agent that is used for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder. (247safegenerics.com)
  • Psychotherapeutic and Neurological Agents - Misc. (toprx.com)
  • Agents used to treat cestode, trematode, or other flatworm infestations in man or animals. (lookformedical.com)
  • Antimanic drugs include lithium, many anticonvulsants, and antipsychotics, all of which are used to treat and prevent manic symptoms, as well as for maintenance treatment. (medscape.com)
  • Antipsychotic agents ameliorate psychosis and aggressive behavior. (medscape.com)
  • Treatment guidelines for bipolar depression have differed on the recommended agents, on the level of risk for antidepressants to promote switching to mania or rapid cycling, and on the measure with which to balance therapeutic benefit against risk. (psychiatrictimes.com)
  • Intalith 300 mg Tablet 10's belongs to a psychological class of drugs called 'Anti-manic agents' or 'Mood stabilizers' primarily used to prevent and treat mood disorders like mania and bipolar disorder. (apollopharmacy.in)
  • It is a mood-stabilizing agent from the psychological class of drugs (mood stabilizers or anti-manic agents) which helps treat problems such as bipolar disorder, depression, and acute manic episodes. (ozlly.com)
  • However, the antimanic properties of tamoxifen have not been fully elucidated, hampering the development and/or use of mood-stabilising drugs that may share its same therapeutic mechanisms of action. (unifesp.br)
  • Anti-Anxiety Agents" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (wakehealth.edu)
  • Lithium is in a class of medications called antimanic agents. (nih.gov)
  • Olanzapine belongs to group of medications known as antipsychotic/antimanic agents. (pocketpills.com)
  • Buspar is an antianxiety agent that is used for the treatment of. (quickshiprx.com)
  • LITHIUM CARBONATE falls under antimanic and it works by altering the balance of certain chemicals in the brain. (atlanticdrugsonline.com)
  • More specifically, the invention relates to novel pharmaceutical compositions for administration of active agents to patients, wherein the compositions provide for multi-stage drug release. (justia.com)
  • Those working in the fields of pharmaceutical formulation and drug delivery continue to be limited by a number of difficulties presented by different active agents. (justia.com)
  • Agents that alleviate ANXIETY, tension, and ANXIETY DISORDERS, promote sedation, and have a calming effect without affecting clarity of consciousness or neurologic conditions. (wakehealth.edu)
  • The risk of agranulocytosis limits the use of this agent to patients who are nonresponsive to or intolerant of classic neuroleptic agents. (medscape.com)
  • As always, the physician should thoroughly evaluate, select and direct the use of medicinal agents. (pdfdrugs.com)
  • The present invention pertains to pharmaceutical formulations and systems for delivery of active agents, wherein a first fraction of an active agent is suspended in a vehicle and a second fraction of active agent is solubilized in the vehicle, with the suspended fraction representing about 5 wt. (justia.com)
  • of the active agent and the second fraction representing about 20 wt. (justia.com)
  • of the active agent. (justia.com)
  • One or more additional active agents, which may be fully solubilized, partially solubilized, or suspended, may also be present. (justia.com)
  • The first and second fractions of the active agent may or may not have different release profiles. (justia.com)
  • The invention additionally relates to processes for preparing the suspensions and methods of using the suspensions to administer an active agent to a patient. (justia.com)
  • A well-designed formulation must, at a minimum, be capable of presenting a therapeutically effective amount of the active agent to the desired absorption site, in an absorbable form. (justia.com)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Anti-Anxiety Agents" by people in this website by year, and whether "Anti-Anxiety Agents" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (wakehealth.edu)
  • 2011). Intriguingly, these transmission transduction pathways have been implicated in the regulation of bone metabolism and homeostasis thus suggesting the concept of lithium as a potential osteoprotective agent. (eprf.ca)