Mood stabilizers are a class of drugs used to prevent and reduce mood episodes such as mania and depression. Like any medication, there are both benefits and risks of taking mood stabilizers. Here are ...

Some anticonvulsant mood stabilizers may increase the risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D), an observational study indicated. Among adults who initiated an anticonvulsant mood stabilizer, ...

New studies spotlight a sweat-based lithium monitor, how mood stabilizers affect thinking, and first-of-its-kind research on perinatal mood in fathers living with bipolar. In the thousands of years ...

Although the mood-stabilizing drugs lithium and valproate are considered gold standards when it comes to managing bipolar disorder, relying on just one of those may not be ideal. That's why adjunctive ...