Why do medications with little or no efficacy continue to be prescribed in the management of patients with bipolar disorder?

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Psychiatry, Queen's University School of Medicine, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• ² Centre for Neuroscience Studies (CNS), Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• ³ Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Providence Care Hospital, Kingston, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁶ School of Medicine, Deakin University, IMPACT, The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia.