View clinical trials related to Bipolar Disorder.
Filter by:This study aims to evaluate the potential antimanic efficacy, safety and tolorability of the purinergic agents allopurinol and dipyridamole as an add-on treatment to lithium in a sample of 180 drug-free manic patients enrolled in a double-blind, placebo-controlled design.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether treating sleep difficulties in patients with bipolar disorder also improves their mood stability.
Subjects suffering from bipolar disorders treated with specific medications will give their informed concent and will receive intravenously only one dose of Digoxin antibodies (Fab). Their response to this therapy will be measured accordingly.Previous medications will be not changed A base line serum Endogenous Digitalis-like Compounds (DLC)levels will be measured using a specific laboratory technique and these compounds will be measured at 6 and 24 hours after Fab therapy. Patients also will be followed using clinical and psychological tests
This study is planned to objectively assess the efficacy and safety of lamotrigine maintenance therapy after symptoms of mood episode had been stabilised by open-label treatment with lamotrigine alone or in combination with other psychotropic medication in patients with bipolar I disorder.
The purpose of this research study is to study the effects (both good and bad) of combining quetiapine and topiramate for treating symptoms of bipolar mania (an illness with periods of elation, excessive excitement, irritability, high energy, racing thoughts, poor sleep, poor judgment, reckless behavior) and to study the effects (both good and bad) of combining quetiapine and topiramate for reducing use of alcohol.
To demonstrate the difference between Abilify with Depakote vs. Placebo with Depakote in 24-week treatment in patients with remission status after Abilify with Depakote in the 6-week study of acute mania in patients with bipolar disorder
To demonstrate the efficacy and safety of co-administration of Abilify(aripiprazole) with Depakote(divalproate) in the acute phase of 6-week treatment of acute mania in patients with bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder is a common and often chronic and debilitating mental illness. The depressive phase of bipolar disorder contributes the largest portion of the disorder, and treatment resistant bipolar depression represents a significant public health problem. Recent research has suggested that bipolar depression is associated with elevated brain glutamate activity. We hypothesize that riluzole, a drug approved for ALS which inhibits glutamate activity, will lead to clinical improvement in patients with bipolar depression.
Evaluating the effectiveness of atypical antipsychotics in the community - a prospective, multicentre, observational study to evaluate the impact on Quality of Life of GP-based management of antipsychotic treatment in Belgium
Having a diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and being treated with certain of the newer antipsychotics are risk factors for development of diabetes. Subjects with these risk factors plus obesity and/or family history of diabetes who agree to study participation will undergo an oral glucose tolerance test. If the oral glucose tolerance test demonstrates that the subject is pre-diabetic (elevated glucose levels, but below the diabetic range), he/she will have his/her insulin resistance level measured, prior to random assignment to either stay on current antipsychotic medication or switch to ziprasidone. Insulin resistance will be measured again after four months. The primary hypothesis is that insulin resistance will decrease in those switched to ziprasidone relative to those continuing on their same antipsychotic medication.