Mood stabilizer

A Phasenprophylaktikum (also called mood stabilizers ) is a psychotropic drug, which is used in certain mental illnesses such as recurrent depression or bipolar disorder to prevent new disease phases.

Thus, lithium salts are used as a precaution in bipolar disorder. It is thought that lithium reduces the likelihood of other affective episode, by lowering the excess noradrenaline in manic episodes and increases the availability of serotonin in the synapse in depressive episodes.

Other major mood stabilizers are carbamazepine, valproic acid and lamotrigine, the latter especially when disorder bipolar type II Also thyroid hormones such as thyroxine can be taken for this purpose.

• Therapeutic process in psychiatry
• Drug group