Table 45-7 Efficacy of standard anticonvulsants in bipolar depression in double-blind trials (reporting results of at least eight bipolar subjects)

Table 45-7 Efficacy of standard anticonvulsants in bipolar depression in double-blind trials (reporting results of at least eight bipolar subjects)
			Improvement, %
Drug	Investigator	N	Responders	Nonresponders
Carbamazepine	Ballenger and Post 1978	9	44	56
	Post et al. 1984	25	48	52
Lamotrigine	Frye et al. 2000	38	45	55
	Calabrese et al. 1999	195
	At 200 mg/day		51	49
	At 50 mg/day		41	59
Gabapentin	Frye et al. 2000	38	27	73
Note. Case reports and case series that did not include all consecutive patients treated with a novel anticonvulsant were excluded from this table.