Rapid-cycling bipolar patients often respond poorly to prophylaxis with which drug?
QUESTION 42
What use of the dexamethasone suppression test in depression is stated in the source?
QUESTION 43
Which personality type is associated with bipolar mood disorders in the source?
QUESTION 44
The depressive aspect of cyclothymic disorder has clinical features resembling which disorder?
QUESTION 45
Rapid cycling is assessed as having been induced by a patient's tricyclic antidepressant. What action regarding the inducing drug is recommended?
QUESTION 46
A patient with resistant depression is already receiving a high dose of a tricyclic antidepressant. Which dose adjustment is suggested to enhance the current treatment?
QUESTION 47
In elderly patients, using newer drugs such as sertraline, trazodone, or mianserin is suggested to avoid which adverse effect?
QUESTION 48
What therapeutic lithium level is specified for prophylaxis of manic-depressive psychosis?
QUESTION 49
What minimum number of mood episodes within one year defines rapid cycling under the stated DSM-5 criterion?
QUESTION 50
A patient with depression has suicidal tendencies and is in stupor. Which treatment is specifically indicated for this presentation?
QUESTION 51
Which agent listed for rapid cyclers is identified as a selective MAO-A inhibitor?
QUESTION 52
Which drug class is explicitly described as having antimanic effects?
QUESTION 53
What intensity of bright artificial light is specified for treating seasonal affective disorder during the short days of winter?
QUESTION 54
In resistant depression, what ECT approach is suggested when the first course has failed?