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2. Switching Antidepressants: Safety, Side Effects & Other ... - AOL

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   When switching antidepressants, your healthcare provider may recommend switching directly, cross-tapering or tapering down your dosage before you start using your new medication.

3. Antipsychotic switching - Wikipedia

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   In general, contraindications to antipsychotic switching are cases in which the risk of switching outweighs the potential benefit. Contraindications to antipsychotic switching include effective treatment of an acute psychotic episode, patients stable on a LAI antipsychotic with a history of poor adherence, and stable patients with a history of self-injurious behavior, violent behavior, or ...

4. Treatment of bipolar disorder - Wikipedia

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   Among bipolar patients taking anticonvulsants, those on lamotrigine have a better cognitive profile than those on carbamazepine, valproate, topiramate, and zonisamide. [ 36 ] Although decreased verbal memory and slowed psychomotor speed are common side effects of lithium use [ 37 ] [ 38 ] these side effects usually disappear after ...

5. Anticonvulsant - Wikipedia

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   Similarly, children exposed lamotrigine or phenytoin in the womb do not seem to differ in their skills compared to those who were exposed to carbamazepine. [ 96 ] There is inadequate evidence to determine if newborns of women with epilepsy taking anticonvulsants have a substantially increased risk of hemorrhagic disease of the newborn .

6. List of psychotropic medications - Wikipedia

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   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

7. Lamotrigine - Wikipedia

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   Lamotrigine, sold under the brand name Lamictal among others, is a medication used to treat epilepsy and stabilize mood in bipolar disorder. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] For epilepsy, this includes focal seizures , tonic-clonic seizures , and seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome . [ 8 ]

8. Lurasidone - Wikipedia

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   Lurasidone [(3aR,4S,7R,7aS)-2-{(1R,2R)-2-[4-(1,2-benzisothiazol-3-yl) piperazin-1-ylmethyl]-cyclohexylmethyl}-hexahydro-4,7-methano-2Hisoindole-1,3-dione hydrochloride]] [71] is an azapirone derivative [72] and acts as an antagonist of the dopamine D 2 and D 3 receptors, [73] and the serotonin 5-HT 2A and 5-HT 7 receptors, and the α 2C ...

9. Eslicarbazepine acetate - Wikipedia

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   Biological half-life is 10 to 20 hours, and steady-state concentrations are reached after four to five days after start of the treatment. [ 3 ] [ 9 ] Oxcarbazepine, for comparison, is also nearly completely absorbed from the gut, and peak plasma concentrations of licarbazepine are reached after 4.5 hours on average after oxcarbazepine intake.