title: Adjunctive tiagabine treatment of psychiatric disorders: three cases.
abstract: Anticonvulsants which effectively treat complex partial seizures are noted to have mood stabilizing effects (carbamazepine, valproate, lamotrigine, gabapentin). Tiagabine, a novel GABA uptake inhibitor anticonvulsant with similar indications, was used as adjunctive therapy to control psychiatric symptoms in three patients--two with bipolar disorder and one with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type. All three patients improved during adjunctive low dosage tiagabine treatment and no untoward side effects were noted. Clinicians are advised to consider this new anticonvulsant as a potential adjunctive agent in the treatment of bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. Controlled trials are indicated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick 08901, USA.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Kaufman
mesh_terms: D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology; D009557:Nipecotic Acids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000078308:Tiagabine