Are there any published reports on the psychiatric uses of gabapentin?
1: J Clin Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;67(3):473-7. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, prophylaxis study of adjunctive gabapentin for bipolar disorder. Vieta E, Manuel Goikolea J, Martinez-Aran A, Comes M, Verger K, Masramon X, Sanchez-Moreno J, Colom F. Bipolar Disorders Program, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. evieta@clinic.ub.es OBJECTIVE: To conduct the first randomized, controlled trial assessing the prophylactic efficacy of gabapentin in bipolar disorder. METHOD: We conducted a 1-year, double-blind, randomized, comparative, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, multicenter study. As this was a pure prophylactic trial, only euthymic bipolar I and II patients (DSM-IV) were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to gabapentin (N = 13) or placebo (N = 12) added to the current treatment (lithium, valproate, carbamazepine, or any combination but not antipsychotics or antidepressants). Subjects participated in the study for 12
