HOW DOES LITHIUM WORK ON MANIC DEPRESSION? clinical and psychological correlates of the inositol theory

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue , 1996, Pages 47-56

  Belmaker, R H ^a   Bersudsky, Yuly ^a   Agam, Galila ^a   Levine, Joseph ^a   Kofman, Ora ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Inositol; Lithium; Manic depression

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; INOSITOL; LITHIUM; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; COMA; DROWSINESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MOOD; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYDIPSIA; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIURESIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; HUMANS; INOSITOL; LITHIUM; RATS;

EID: 0029875448     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.47.1.47     Document Type: Review

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