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Who Responds to Prophylactic Lithium Therapy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

M. T. Abou-Saleh
M. T. Abou-Saleh*
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, PO Box 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Abstract

The search for predictors of outcome has not been particularly rewarding, and the use of lithium remains empirical: a trial of lithium is the most powerful predictor of outcome. However, lithium is a highly specific treatment for bipolar disorder. In non-bipolar affective disorder, factors of interest are correlates of bipolar disorder: mood-congruent psychotic features, retarded-endogenous profile, cyclothymic personality, positive family history of bipolar illness, periodicity, and normality between episodes of illness.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 163 , Issue S21: Prediction in Psychopharmacology , September 1993 , pp. 20 - 26
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Copyright © 1993 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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