Burden of Treatment

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Burden of Treatment

• Side effect burden of treatments for depressive
  symptoms in bipolar disorder
• Treatments
• Lamotrigine, olanzapine, quetiapine
• Common adverse events in depression studies
• Lamotrigine headache, nausea, rash
• Olanzapine somnolence, weight gain, increased
  appetite, asthenia
• Quetiapine dry mouth, sedation/somnolence,
  dizziness, constipation

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