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Managing bipolar disorder during pregnancy and lactation: is there a safe and effective option?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Pierre Thomas  and
W. Emanuel Severus
Pierre Thomas*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Clinic, University of Lille 2, 6, Rue du Pr. Laguesse, 5903 Lille Cedex, France
W. Emanuel Severus
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Nussbaumstrasse 7, 80336 Munich, Germany
*
*Corresponding author. pthomas@chru-lille.fr (R Thomas).
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Bipolar disorder is a serious psychiatric illness that usually emerges during adolescence or early adulthood, and patients are likely to experience recurrent episodes throughout their lives. The treatment of bipolar disorder is complicated by the difficulty in distinguishing between subtly different disease subtypes (bipolar I, bipolar II, rapid cycling and mixed episodes), each of which is associated with a different probability of treatment success. Furthermore, physicians are faced with an array of treatment options that includes mood stabilisers, antidepressants, and typical and atypical antipsychotics.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 18 , Issue S1 , December 2003 , pp. 3s - 8s
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2003

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