Conditions: Bipolar Depression
Keywords: Keppra Levetiracetam Anticonvulsant Depression Bipolar Disorder Affective Disorders Mood Disorders Double Blind Acute Antidepressant Effects
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 35
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
A 6-week outpatient, double-blind, placebo-controlled, add-on trial to investigate the effects of levetiracetam on depressive symptoms in bipolar depressed patients.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Levetiracetam intervention 2: Placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Flexible dose up to 2500mg per day, for 6 weeks. intervention 2: Flexible dose up to 2500mg per day, for 6 weeks.

Protocol document: