A report on Psychiatric medication and Mood stabilizer

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A bottle of lithium capsules. Lithium is the "classic" mood stabilizer.

A mood stabilizer is a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders characterized by intense and sustained mood shifts, such as bipolar disorder and the bipolar type of schizoaffective disorder.

- Mood stabilizer

Mood stabilizers, which treat bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder.

- Psychiatric medication
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A bottle of lithium medicine containing 300 mg capsules of lithium carbonate.

Lithium (medication)

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A bottle of lithium medicine containing 300 mg capsules of lithium carbonate.

Certain lithium compounds, also known as lithium salts, are used as psychiatric medication, primarily for bipolar disorder and for major depressive disorder that does not improve following the use of antidepressants.

Lithium salts are classified as mood stabilizers.

Emil Kraepelin's dichotomy (c. 1898) continues to influence classification and diagnosis in psychiatry.

Schizoaffective disorder

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Mental disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and an unstable mood.

Mental disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and an unstable mood.

Emil Kraepelin's dichotomy (c. 1898) continues to influence classification and diagnosis in psychiatry.
Karl Kahlbaum (1828–1899)
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926). Embracing the Kraepelinian dichotomy in DSM-III in 1980, while a step forward from psychodynamic explanations of the disorder, introduced significant problems in schizoaffective disorder diagnosis, as explained recently by the DSM-5 workgroup.

The mainstay of current treatment is antipsychotic medication combined with mood stabilizer medication or antidepressant medication, or both.

Because psychosis may be precipitated or exacerbated by common classes of psychiatric medications, such as antidepressants, ADHD stimulant medications, and sleep medications, prescribed medication-induced psychosis should be ruled out, particularly for first-episode psychosis.