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Lithium more effective than quetiapine in patients with first‐episode mania
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30237
Subject(s) - quetiapine , mania , psychiatry , mood , lithium (medication) , bipolar disorder , psychology , medicine , psychopharmacology , psychotherapist , schizophrenia (object oriented programming)
A study of 41 patients with stabilized first‐episode bipolar mania has found that maintenance treatment with lithium was more effective than quetiapine treatment on a number of symptoms over a one‐year period. The results were surprising in that they contradicted prior studies that had found no significant difference between mood stabilizers and atypical antipsychotics in maintenance treatment.