Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide
Lamotrigine
INDICATIONS
FDA
FDA
- Bipolar 1 disorder (maintenance treatment), epilepsy (partial onset seizures, primary generalized tonic clonic seizures, generalized seizures of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome)
NON-FDA APPROVED USES
NON-FDA APPROVED USES
- Unipolar depression; migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, fibromyalgia
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Last updated: September 14, 2025
Citation
Weinstein, Sujin L. "Lamotrigine." Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide, The Johns Hopkins University, 2025. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787445/all/Lamotrigine.
Weinstein SL. Lamotrigine. Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2025. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787445/all/Lamotrigine. Accessed November 3, 2025.
Weinstein, S. L. (2025). Lamotrigine. In Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. The Johns Hopkins University. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787445/all/Lamotrigine
Weinstein SL. Lamotrigine [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. The Johns Hopkins University; 2025. [cited 2025 November 03]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787445/all/Lamotrigine.
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