Sunday, November 4, 2007

Aripiprazole Decreases Symptoms of Mania in Paediatric Bipolar Disorder: Presented at AACAP

Children and adolescents at the onset of bipolar disorder may achieve improvements in manic symptoms with aripiprazole, according to research presented here at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).

Lead author Kiki D. Chang, MD, Assistant Professor and Director, Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States, and colleagues undertook a 54-centre, 4-week study of 296 patients 10 to 17 years of age with bipolar disease.

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