Special Populations
(1) San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and University of California, Oakland, CA, USA Special populations, such as older adults with memory and other cognitive deficits or…
Harm Reduction
(1) San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and University of California, Oakland, CA, USA Harm reduction (HR) aims to reduce the premature death and the long-term health…
Recommendations in International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Lithium Therapy of Bipolar Disorder
APA (2002) BAP (2016) CANMAT (2013) DGBS, DGPPN (2012) NICE 2014 RANZCP (2015) WFSBP (2013) Summary Acute mania First-line combination therapy for severe or mixed episode; lithium monotherapy for…
The Lithium Ion
Fig. 1.1 Some key dates and names associated with the history of lithium Because of the present broad use of lithium in various sectors ranging from high power/energy electrochemical cells,…
Lithium: Neurotransmission and Cellular Mechanism Pathways Underlying Neuroprogression in Bipolar Disorder
Fig. 3.1 A framework for understanding the impact of lithium treatment for bipolar disorder. Lithium inhibits (red arrows) and facilitates (green arrows) a number of neurotransmitter and cellular signal transduction…
The Pharmacokinetics of Lithium
In some studies, the RBC lithium concentration is calculated indirectly using the following equation: Intra-erythrocytes lithium could be measured directly after RBC separation and haemolysis using one of the previously…
Lithium and Renal Failure
Fig. 16.1 Mechanism of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. Lithium produces a negative regulation and a decrease of trafficking towards the membrane of aquaporin-2 channels (AQP2) in the principal cells of the…
Lithium in the Twenty-First Century
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Gin S. Malhi, Marc Masson and Frank Bellivier (eds.)The Science and Practice of Lithium Therapy10.1007/978-3-319-45923-3_21 21. Lithium in the Twenty-First Century Guy M. Goodwin1 (1) University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford…
