People with what sorts of disorders are candidates for treatment with topiramate?
It is too early to be very specific about which mood disorders are most likely to respond to treatment with topiramate. There are just about no published reports on topiramate’s use in psychiatry. Patients with hard-to-treat bipolar syndromes have been treated more often than patients with “treatment-resistant” unipolar disorders. Topiramate seems especially useful when it comes to treating people who have become manic as the result treatment with lamotrigine. There has recently been a report regarding the control of the symptoms of PTSD by topiramate. Topiramate has also been successfully used to decrease binge eating and overeating that is caused by other psychiatric medications.
