Open AccessMemantine in the management of a clinically challenging case of bipolar disorder
Author(s) -
Vivek Agarwal,
Adarsh Tripathi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.49455
Subject(s) - memantine , bipolar disorder , psychiatry , treatment of bipolar disorder , medicine , psychology , cognition , dementia , mania , disease
Use of memantine in bipolar disorders is not been studied except one case report. We report a case in which use of memantine lead to better medication tolerance and improvement in symptoms in bipolar disorder.