Source: DGNews  |  Posted 8 years ago

By Paula Moyer

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC -- October 14, 2003 -- Patients with bipolar disorder can achieve effective relief of depression with a combination of olanzapine (Zyprexa) and fluoxetine (Prozac), while being spared the treatment-emergent mania that such patients often get on antidepressant monotherapy, according to researchers speaking here September 22nd at the 16th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

"When bipolar patients do not have a mood stabiliser, treatment of their depressive phases