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Treatment of acute mania
1Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles.
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Treatment of acute mania requires attention to both specific and nonspecific antimanic medications. The choice of specific agents now includes lithium, carbamazepine, and valproate; and nonspecific agents include benzodiazepines, calcium channel blockers, alpha adrenergic agonists, as well as neuroleptic drugs. Treatment-resistant manic states are best treated by careful sequential strategies that may include polypharmacy and electroconvulsive therapy.