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A breast cancer drug to treat... mania?

Could the breast cancer drug tamoxifen also treat bipolar disorder? Journal Watch Psychiatry currently highlights results of a pilot study to test that hypothesis. Five out of eight men who took tamoxifen had a 50% reduction in mania scores; just one person out of eight responded to placebo. The only side effect appeared to be appetite loss.

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