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Bipolar Disorder Medication Spotlight: Clozaril (Clozapine)

Friday, January 23rd, 2009
With this post, we continue our biweekly series on medications used to treat bipolar disorder and related symptoms. Over the past several weeks, we covered five commonly used atypical antipsychotics, including Zyprexa (olanzapine) and Seroquel (quetiapine). Because the Zyprexa post contains a great deal of information that applies to the atypical antipsychotics as a group, we encourage you to read it first.

Bipolar Disorder Medication Spotlight: Abilify (Aripiprazole)

Friday, January 9th, 2009
With this post, we continue our biweekly series on medications used to treat bipolar disorder and related symptoms. Over the past several weeks, we covered four commonly used atypical antipsychotics, including Zyprexa (olanzapine) and Seroquel (quetiapine). Because the Zyprexa post contains a great deal of information that applies to the atypical antipsychotics as a group, we encourage you to read it first.

Bipolar Disorder Medication Spotlight: Geodon (Ziprasidone)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
With this post, we continue our biweekly series on medications used to treat bipolar disorder and related symptoms. Over the past couple weeks, we covered three commonly used atypical antipsychotics – Zyprexa (olanzapine), Risperdal (risperidone), and Seroquel (quetiapine). Because the Zyprexa post contains a great deal of information that applies to the atypical antipsychotics as a group, we encourage you to read it first.

Bipolar Disorder Medication Spotlight: Seroquel (Quetiapine)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
With this post, we continue our biweekly series on medications used to treat bipolar disorder and related symptoms. Over the past couple weeks, we covered two commonly used atypical antipsychotics – Zyprexa (olanzapine) and Risperdal (risperidone). Because the Zyprexa post contains a great deal of information that applies to the atypical antipsychotics as a group, we encourage you to read it first.

Bipolar Disorder Medication Spotlight: Risperdal (Risperidone)

Friday, November 21st, 2008
With this post, we continue our biweekly series on medications used to treat bipolar disorder and related symptoms. Last week, we started our coverage of the atypical antipsychotics with one of the more popular and controversial medications in the group – Zyprexa (Onanzapine). Because that post contains a great deal of information that applies to the atypical antipsychotics as a group, we encourage you to read it first.

Candida Fink, M.D. and Joe Kraynak are authors of Bipolar Disorder for Dummies. Pick up the book today!
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