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Lithium for maintenance treatment of mood disorders.

Abstract:: BACKGROUND: Mood disorders are common, disabling and tend to be recurrent. They carry a high risk of suicide. Maintenance treatment, aimed at the prevention of relapse, is therefore of vital importance. Lithium has been used for some years as the mainstay of maintenance treatment in bipolar affective disorder, and to a lesser extent in unipolar disorder. However, the efficacy and effectiveness of prophylactic lithium therapy has been disputed. Low suicide rates in lithium-treated patients hav...
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Burgess, S., Geddes, J., Hawton, K., Townsend, E., Jamison, K., & Goodwin, G. (2001). Lithium for maintenance treatment of mood disorders. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online), 2.

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Burgess, S., et al. “Lithium for Maintenance Treatment of Mood Disorders.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online), no. 2, 2001.

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Burgess, S, J Geddes, K Hawton, E Townsend, K Jamison, and G Goodwin. 2001. “Lithium for Maintenance Treatment of Mood Disorders.” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online), no. 2.
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+ Hawton, K More by this author

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Journal:: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) More from this journal
Issue:: 2
Publication date:: 2001-01-01
EISSN:: 1469-493X

Language:: English
Pubs id:: pubs:165586
UUID:: uuid:e9cadbfb-e81c-45fa-bc21-d88d2b44c3eb
Local pid:: pubs:165586
Source identifiers:: 165586
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