Stroke,asprin,warfarin,bipolar

What is the consensus of opinion regarding warfarin versus aspirin in the prophylaxis of TIA/stroke in a patient who has had x2 TIA’s 1999 and 2000 and has been on warfarin ever since?


Bipolar guidelines

Mental health

Schizophrenia Consumer Version
Panic Disorder And Agoraphobia Consumer Version
Depression Consumer Version
Deliberate Self Harm Consumer Version
Bipolar Disorder Consumer Version
Anorexia Nervosa Consumer Version

Click on the above. It will take you to Royal Australian and New Zealand thingie of psychiatrists. The above are 40 to 50 page PDF downloads. There are professional and lay versions. It looks like there isn't corporate funding but it's probably there somewhere.

These booklets are really good places to get started - plenty of pointers to other sources of information too.

Bipolar

My bipolar expedition
A personal story published in the BMJ.

I first stepped, blind, shoeless, and alone, on to the rough and winding road that is bipolar disorder 16 years ago when I was 16 and in my final year at school.

The latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder

This evidence of benefit for one agent (lithium) and possible benefit for one more (olanzapine) must be weighed against two harms associated with use of antipsychotics: (1) a consistent body of evidence indicates that regular treatment with antipsychotics in the longer run increases mortality [22–26]; and (2) there is evidence that in placebo-controlled trials of antipsychotics submitted in application for schizophrenia licenses there is a statistically significant excess of completed suicides on active treatment [27]. A range of problems associated with antipsychotics, from increased mortality to tardive dyskinesia, never show up in the short-term trials aimed at demonstrating treatment effects in psychiatry.