VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY

A controlled blind study was carried out to establish the efficacy of Sodium Valproate as the first line of treatment in Acute Mania. Patients were studied over a period of 4 weeks. Using randomised table patients were assigned to either lithium or valproate. Decrease in the psychopathology was evid...

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Autores principales: Prakash, H.M., Bharath, Srikala
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407916
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spelling pubmed-29570112011-03-15 VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY Prakash, H.M. Bharath, Srikala Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A controlled blind study was carried out to establish the efficacy of Sodium Valproate as the first line of treatment in Acute Mania. Patients were studied over a period of 4 weeks. Using randomised table patients were assigned to either lithium or valproate. Decrease in the psychopathology was evident within 2-3 weeks. Valproate was found to be as effective as Lithium in controlling the manic episode. Medknow Publications 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC2957011/ /pubmed/21407916 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY
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title_full VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY
title_fullStr VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY
title_full_unstemmed VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY
title_short VALPROATE IN ACUTE MANIA - A CONTROLLED STUDY
title_sort valproate in acute mania - a controlled study
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