Is it time to have another look at lithium maintenance therapy in bipolar disorder?

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1011-1017

  Akhondazeh, Shahin ^a,b   Emamian, Effat Sadat ^a   Ahmadi Abhari, Ali ^a   Shabestari, Omid ^a   Dadgarnejad, Manoucher ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bipolar disorder; Lithium efficacy; Mania

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHIUM; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033180602     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(99)00056-1     Document Type: Article

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