Lithium: Still a Major Option in the Management of Bipolar Disorder

Long-term outcome of patients with bipolar disorder commenced on lithium prophylaxis during hospitalization: a complete 15-year register-based follow-up

(2010) Rasmus W Licht et al.   BIPOLAR DISORDERS

Lamotrigine versus lithium as maintenance treatment in bipolar I disorder: an open, randomized effectiveness study mimicking clinical practice. The 6th trial of the Danish University Antidepressant Group (DUAG-6)

(2010) Rasmus W Licht et al.   BIPOLAR DISORDERS

In search of optimal lithium levels and olanzapine doses in the long-term treatment of bipolar I disorder. A post-hoc analysis of the maintenance study by Tohen et al. 2005

(2010) W.E. Severus et al.   EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRY

Efficacy of valproate versus lithium in mania or mixed mania: a randomized, open 12-week trial

(2010) Charles L. Bowden et al.   INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Quetiapine and Lithium Monotherapy in Adults in the Acute Phase of Bipolar Depression (EMBOLDEN I)

(2010) Allan H. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY

A new BALANCE in bipolar I disorder

(2010) Rasmus W Licht   LANCET

Lithium plus valproate combination therapy versus monotherapy for relapse prevention in bipolar I disorder (BALANCE): a randomised open-label trial

(2010)   LANCET

Sixty Years of Lithium Responders

(2010) Paul Grof   NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY

Novel Insights into Lithium’s Mechanism of Action: Neurotrophic and Neuroprotective Effects

(2010) Jorge A. Quiroz et al.   NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY

The International Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen): An Initiative by the NIMH and IGSLI to Study the Genetic Basis of Response to Lithium Treatment

(2010) Thomas G. Schulze et al.   NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY

The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Biological Treatment of Bipolar Disorders: Update 2010 on the treatment of acute bipolar depression

(2010) Heinz Grunze et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Clinical practice recommendations for bipolar disorder

(2009) G. S. Malhi et al.   ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA

Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) collaborative update of CANMAT guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2009

(2009) Lakshmi N Yatham et al.   BIPOLAR DISORDERS

Evidence-based guidelines for treating bipolar disorder: revised second edition—recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology

(2009) GM Goodwin et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Renal failure occurs in chronic lithium treatment but is uncommon

(2009) Hans Bendz et al.   KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL

The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Biological Treatment of Bipolar Disorders: Update 2009 on the Treatment of Acute Mania

(2009) Heinz Grunze et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Long-term antidepressant treatment in bipolar disorder: meta-analyses of benefits and risks

(2008) S. N. Ghaemi et al.   ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA

Efficacy of Adjunctive Aripiprazole to Either Valproate or Lithium in Bipolar Mania Patients Partially Nonresponsive to Valproate/Lithium Monotherapy: A Placebo-Controlled Study

(2008) Eduard Vieta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Lithium Treatment and Risk of Dementia

(2008) Lars Vedel Kessing et al.   ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

Efficacy and safety of quetiapine in combination with lithium or divalproex for maintenance of patients with bipolar I disorder (international trial 126)

(2008) Eduard Vieta et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Quetiapine and classical mood stabilizers in the long-term treatment of Bipolar Disorder: A 4-year follow-up naturalistic study

(2008) A.C. Altamura et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Is the polarity of relapse/recurrence in bipolar-I disorder patients related to serum lithium levels? Results from an empirical study

(2008) W.E. Severus et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Aripiprazole monotherapy in the treatment of acute bipolar I mania: A randomized, double-blind, placebo- and lithium-controlled study

(2008) P.E. Keck et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Olanzapine versus lithium in the acute treatment of bipolar mania: A double-blind, randomized, controlled trial

(2007) Gu Niufan et al.   JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS