Persistent cognitive deficits associated with lithium intoxication: A neuropsychological case description

Cortex

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 743-752

  Bartha, Lisa ^a   Marksteiner, Josef ^b   Bauer, Gerhard ^a   Benke, Thomas ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Neurochirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

^b University Department of Psychiatry   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lithium intoxication; Neuropsychological impairment

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; LITHIUM CARBONATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APRAXIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; READING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPEECH; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUPHORIA; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0036917393     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70041-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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