New pharmacotherapies to tackle the unmet needs in bipolar disorder: a focus on acute suicidality.
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy March 1, 2024 Georgios D Kotzalidis, Federica Fiaschè, Alessandro Alcibiade et al. 3 citations
Suicidal behavior is relatively frequent in patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and constitutes their most frequent cause of death. Suicide rates remain high in patients with BD despite adherence to guidelines recommending lithium as first line, and/or antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychotherapy, psychosocial interventions, and electroconvulsive therapy. Hence the need to identify more...