December 15, 2020
Video
Dr Osser discusses 4 new algorithms to help improve your practice.
November 11, 2020
Article
The psychiatric prescribing clinician may be called upon to treat pain comorbid with bipolar disorder.
October 30, 2020
Article
Although clinicians and patients may wish otherwise, the comorbidity of ADHD and bipolar disorder needs to be considered.
October 29, 2020
Article
David Osser, MD, comments on the low priority of valproate for treating patients with bipolar disorder.
October 26, 2020
Article
Oxcarbazepine might be considered for patients who you want to treat with carbamazepine for mania (as monotherapy or adjunct) but for whom it would be unsafe or who have been unable to tolerate it.
August 13, 2020
Article
There are some off-label proposed uses for topiramate in comorbidities that are common in patients with bipolar disorder. What does the evidence say?
July 28, 2020
Article
Valproate/divalproex appears to be considerably overused in the US; the use of lithium, second-generation antipsychotics, and carbamazepine should be more prominent in treatment decisions for patients with bipolar mania.
June 30, 2020
Article
Do you prescribe antidepressants for your patients with bipolar depression? If so, think again, and consider results from these studies.
April 01, 2020
Article
Regardless of whatever short-term benefit patients perceive from cannabis, the evidence points clearly to an association between usage and worsening course of bipolar disorder over time.
February 14, 2020
Article
Do you need help persuading patients to try lithium?