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Bipolar Disorder Therapy
Studies in the area of bipolar disorder therapy reported from Ruhr University, Department of Psychiatry
June 18th, 2007
New investigation results, "Quetiapine indication shift in the elderly: diagnosis and dosage in 208 psychogeriatric patients from 2000 to 2006," are detailed in a study published in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. "Quetiapine was approved in Germany as an atypical antipsychotic for treatment of schizophrenia in 2000, followed by the approval as an antipsychotic for treatment of bipolar mania in 2003. The approval of quetiapine for treatment of bipolar depression is expected," investigators in Bochum, Germany report. "We hypothesized that the psychogeriatric prescription pattern for quetiapine shifts from the psychotic to the affective spectrum....
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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