How does lamotrigine differ from other mood stabilizing drugs?
Lamotrigine differs from other mood stabilizing drugs in two major ways: 1. Lamotrigine’s frequent effectiveness for patients who have failed to respond to antidepressants or mood stabilizers; 2. Lamotrigine’s relatively benign side-effect profile. 5. What, if anything, uniquely distinguishes lamotrigine from carbamazepine and valproate? Lamotrigine has had been successful in controlling rapid cycling and mixed bipolar states in people who have not received adequate relief from carbamazepine and/or valproate. It also appears that lamotrigine has significantly more antidepressant potency than either carbamazepine or valproate. 6. People with what sorts of mood disorders are candidates for treatment with lamotrigine? It is too early to be very specific about which mood disorders are most likely to respond to treatment with lamotrigine. There are few published reports on lamotrigine’s use in psychiatry. Patients with hard-to-treat bipolar syndromes and with schizoaffective disorder have b
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