What role does (should) lithium play in suicide treatment/prevention?

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Lewitzka, Ute ^a   Bauer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

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