Lithium: The Forgotten Wonderdrug
Lithium: The Forgotten Wonderdrug
Lithium: The Forgotten Wonderdrug
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Not Everyone Responds to <strong>Lithium</strong><br />
Maintenance<br />
• Rapid Cycling<br />
– Rapid cycling reduces efficacy of<br />
maintenance therapy with lithium<br />
• Amount of time with bipolar disorder<br />
before lithium maintenance initiation<br />
– <strong>The</strong> less time the greater the benefit<br />
• <strong>Lithium</strong> responders tend to present with<br />
episodic, fully remitting course and with<br />
euphoric rather than dysphoric mania