“…A series of patients with PMS and affective disturbance appeared to respond well to the combination of valproate and quetiapine (Egger, Zwanenburg, van Ravenswaaij‐Arts, Kleefstra & Verhoeven, ), while valproate has been used in combination with antidepressants for PMS with atypical bipolar disorder (Verhoeven, Egger, Willemsen, de Leijer & Kleefstra, ) and quetiapine has been successful in treating psychosis in those with PMS (Messias, Kaley & McKelvey, ). Carbamazepine has also shown to be effective in atypical bipolar disorder in combination with antipsychotics or other mood stabilisers (Verhoeven, Egger, Cohen‐Snuijf, Kant & de Leeuw, ; Verhoeven et al., ; Vucurovic et al., ), and mood instability has been successfully treated with low doses of risperidone alone (Pasini, D'Agati, Casarelli & Curatolo, ).…”