mood stabilizer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoodandstabilizer
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mood
noun[C]
uk/muːd/us/muːd/
the way you feel at a ...
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stabilizer
noun[C]
uk/ˈsteɪ.bəl.aɪ.zər/us/ˈsteɪ.bə.laɪ.zɚ/
finance & economicsspecialized, UK
a method used to limit sudden changes in prices or to limit the level ...
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(Definition ofmoodandstabilizerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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All three were treated with antipsychotic medication and sodium valproate as amoodstabilizer, two as in-patients, one as an out-patient.
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Most patients in our study had been takingmoodstabilizermedications for several years.
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The effect ofmoodstabilizermedications/anticonvulsants on encoding strategies has, to our knowledge, not yet been investigated.
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Patients continued to take the samemoodstabilizerthat they had received during the acute phase.
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Ten depressed patients were receiving lithium, four were receiving anothermoodstabilizer, eight were in receipt of a neuroleptic and eight were taking an antidepressant.
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Allmoodstabilizerdrugs (including newer anticonvulsants) and all atypical antipsychotic drugs were available without formulary restriction.
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Despite the essentially uniform consensus supporting a "moodstabilizerfirst" approach to management of bipolar depression, not all psychiatrists follow this strategy.
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All were prescribed a typical (n=15) or an atypical neuroleptic (n= 32), 19 were prescribed an antidepressant, and 16 were prescribed amoodstabilizer.
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The sample had been on their presentmoodstabilizerfor about 5 years, 85 % were taking lithium.
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Patients receiving amoodstabilizerplus adjunctive anti-depressant therapy had similar outcomes to patients receiving amoodstabilizeronly.
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Four manic patients were in receipt of lithium carbonate, 11 were in receipt of anothermoodstabilizer, 18 were in receipt of a neuroleptic and one was prescribed an antidepressant.
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In the first year of the long-term follow-up phase 121/135 (90 %) of the subjects on whom the information was available received an antidepressant ormoodstabilizer.
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Again, no advantage was observed for the antidepressant when compared with themoodstabilizer.
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In the case of the remitted patients, 11 were in receipt of lithium, one was receiving anothermoodstabilizer, five were prescribed a neuroleptic and six were taking antidepressants.
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If antidepressants are used for periods of depression they should be used with amoodstabilizer.
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Sodium valproate, a drug used as an anti-epileptic and as amoodstabilizer, increased the chance of children being born with autism sevenfold.
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