Adjunctive Antipsychotic Treatment Is Necessary for Adolescents with Psychotic Mania
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc in Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 11 (4) , 409-413
- https://doi.org/10.1089/104454601317261582
Abstract
Adolescents with acute psychotic mania were treated with lithium and adjunctive haloperidol as part of a lithium efficacy study. If the psychosis completely resolved, haloperidol was discontinued after 1 week of therapeutic lithium levels. Our first five subjects experienced a rapid exacerbation of symptoms, which responded to restarting haloperidol. A longer duration of adjunctive antipsychotic treatment is necessary in adolescents with bipolar psychosis.Keywords
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