Lithium: The Forgotten Wonderdrug

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Rapid Cycling • Four or more mood episodes within single year demarcated by partial or full remission or switch to episode of opposite polarity • Look for causes – Comorbid substance use – Thyroid dysfunction – Antidepressant can contribute • Initial treatment should be lithium, valproate, lamotrigine or a combination
Maintenance “<strong>The</strong> medications with the best empirical evidence to support their use in maintenance treatment include lithium and valproate…Long term treatment with lithium has been associated with reduction of suicide risk…<strong>Lithium</strong> may also diminish the greater mortality risk observed among bipolar disorder patients from causes other than suicide. It is unknown whether prolonged survival is also seen with the anticonvulsant maintenance agents.”
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Lithium: The Forgotten Wonderdrug W
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What Is Lithium
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History • 1880s to early 1900s li
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Psychiatric Uses For Lithium • An
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Advantages of Lithium • Well esta
Page 13 and 14: Decline In Lithium Use
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Page 23 and 24: Rates of Suicide Attempts • Suici
Page 25 and 26: Risk Reduction in Diagnostic Subtyp
Page 27 and 28: Other Important Risk Factors in Sui
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Page 33 and 34: Relapse in Bipolar Disorder • Des
Page 35 and 36: Episode Recurrence in Bipolar I Dis
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Page 41 and 42: Risk vs Benefit Of Lithium Maintena
Page 43 and 44: Potential Toxicity of Long Term Lit
Page 45 and 46: Reducing Risk, Increasing Benefit:
Page 47 and 48: Initiating and Monitoring Lithium T
Page 49 and 50: Initiating Lithium • Prior to ini
Page 51 and 52: Blood Monitoring • Lithium can be
Page 53 and 54: Therapeutic Levels • Upper end: 1
Page 55 and 56: Lithium Discontinuation
Page 57 and 58: Reduced Morbidity After Gradual Dis
Page 59 and 60: Lithium Discontinuation and Subsequ
Page 61 and 62: APA Treatment Guidelines For Bipola
Page 63: Bipolar Depression • First line t
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