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With all due respect, I think you have a typo there. Lamictal IS a mood stabilizer, a very good one, but not an anti-depressant. Resperidal and Seroquel are both atypical antipsychotics.
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ptk
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PTK: Lamotrigine: is an atypical anticonvulsant not a mood stabiliser.
Maybe I wasn't clear before I'm not talking about their classes, but what kind of effect you get.
All of the drugs that are used as mood stabilisers (in a general sense) have different strengths at stabilising highs and lows. Some drugs are really good at getting rid of the depressive moods eg, (TCA > SNRI > SSRI > Lamotigine > Lithium) then others are better at getting rid of manias eg, (Risipirdal > seroquel > epilim > lithium).
It is marketed as a "mood stabiliser" rather than anti depressant in the US and hence most of the world due to medico-legal reasons, It is the drug with an antidepressant effect that is LEAST likely to induce a mania.
Hope this is clearer.