Test: "New Treatments in Mania" - Dr. Susan McElroy
Please select the best answer of the available choices for each of the 10 questions below, then press the button marked "Score the Test" to proceed.
	1. Combination therapy is generally superior to monotherapy for the short-term treatment of acute mania.   A. True   B. False     2. Lithium is not effective in the treatment of acute bipolar mania with psychotic features.   A. True   B. False     3. Olanzapine is associated with more weight gain than valproate in the short term treatment of acute biopolar mania.   A. True   B. False     4. Topiramate is efficacious in the treatment of acute bipolar mania.   A. True   B. False     5. Aripiprazole monotherapy has been shown to be efficacious in the short term treatment of acute bipolar mania.   A. True   B. False     6. Gabapentin has been shown to be efficacious as add-on therapy in the treatment of bipolar I manic symptoms.   A. True   B. False     7. Atypical antipsychotic add-on therapy with olanzapine, risperidone, and quetiapine to initial mood-stabilizer treatment has been shown to be efficacious (superior to placebo).   A. True   B. False     8. Valproex sodium may be administered via an oral loading strategy of 20 to 30 ms/kg/day in the initial treatment of acute bipolar mania.   A. True   B. False     9. Lamictal has been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of acute bipolar mania.   A. True   B. False     10. Carbanazepine has been shown to be efficacious (superior to placebo) in the treatment of acute mania.   A. True   B. False