Lithium-induced neurotoxicity: Clinical presentations, pathophysiology, and treatment

Psychosomatics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 296-302

  Ivkovic, Ana ^a   Stern, Theodore A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; IBUPROFEN; LISINOPRIL; LITHIUM CARBONATE; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; TRANQUILIZER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BEDTIME DOSAGE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISORIENTATION; DISTRACTIBILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; DYSMETRIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KNEE PAIN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LITHIUM BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECALL; TREMOR; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WHITE MATTER LESION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANTIMANIC AGENTS; ATAXIA; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DYSARTHRIA; HUMANS; LITHIUM CARBONATE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES;

EID: 84899618758     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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