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This is a complete list of clinically approved prescription antidepressants throughout the world, as well as clinically approved prescription drugs used to augment antidepressants or mood stabilizers, by pharmacological and/or structural classification. Chemical/generic names are listed first, with brand names in parentheses.
Lamotrigine: Lamictal Levetiracetam: Keppra Lithium salts: Camcolit, Eskalith, Lithobid, Sedalit Oxcarbazepine: Trileptal Topiramate: Topamax Sodium valproate [note 1] Convulex, Depakene, Depakine Enteric, Orfiril, Stavzor Divalproex sodium [note 2] Depakote, Epival, Ergenyl Chrono Sodium valproate and valproic acid in 2.3:1 ratio
Most mood stabilizers are primarily antimanic agents, meaning that they are effective at treating mania and mood cycling and shifting, but are not effective at treating acute depression. The principal exceptions to that rule, because they treat both manic and depressive symptoms, are lamotrigine , lithium carbonate , olanzapine and quetiapine .
Lamotrigine (Lamictal®) Lithium (Eskalith®, Lithobid®) Some studies show that the most effective treatment results from medication have been seen from combinations of mood stabilizers and ...
A number of anti-convulsant drugs are used as mood stabilizers, and the suspected mechanism is related to the theory that mania can "kindle" further mania, similar to the kindling model of seizures. [2] Valproic acid, or valproate, was one of the first anti-convulsants tested for use in bipolar disorder.
Lamictal (lamotrigine) – an anticonvulsant used as a mood stabilizer; Latuda – an atypical antipsychotic; Lexapro (escitalopram) – an antidepressant of the SSRI class; Librium (chlordiazepoxide) – a benzodiazepine used to treat acute alcohol withdrawal; Lithobid, Eskalith – a mood stabilizer
The mechanism of action of mood stabilizers is not well understood. Common non-antipsychotic mood stabilizers include: Lithium (Lithobid, Eskalith), the oldest mood stabilizer; Anticonvulsants Carbamazepine (Tegretol) and the related compound oxcarbazepine (Trileptal) Valproic acid, and salts (Depakene, Depakote) Lamotrigine (Lamictal)
This is a list of investigational antidepressants, or drugs that are currently under development for clinical use in the treatment of depression but are not yet approved. . Specific indications include major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression, dysthymia, bipolar depression, and postpartum depression, among oth