Medicines Blog Posts

• Major new meta-analysis shows that antipsychotics are significantly more effective than mood stabilisers for treating acute mania

  23 Aug 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Methodological difficulties continue to hamper evaluation of interventions for challenging behaviour

  11 Aug 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Prevalence of ADHD in people with learning disabilities must be established and broader range of treatment options tested

  25 Jul 2011

  • John Northfield

  
• Maintenance treatments for bipolar disorder: reducing the risk of manic, mixed or depressive relapse

  14 Jul 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Lithium is a better treatment for bipolar disorder than valproate

  20 Jun 2011

  • Andre Tomlin

  
• Review finds melatonin to be safest choice for children with sleep disturbance

  19 May 2011

  • John Northfield