Depression & mania : modern lithium therapy
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Depression & mania : modern lithium therapy
IRL, c1987
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Depression and mania
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This book is a valuable guide both for psychiatrists primarily interested in the practicalities of lithium therapy and for patients seeking information about their treatment. Each chapter describes a specific feature of lithium therapy; the contributors provide fresh approaches to the benefits and drawbacks of lithium usage. Readership: psychiatrists, pharmacologists, clinicians, and patients.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: Manic depressive illness
- The chemical nature of lithium
- Production and reserves
- MEDICAL APPLICATIONS: Acute treatment of mania
- Acute treatment of depression
- Schizophrenia
- Prophylactic alternatives to lithium
- CLINICAL PRACTICE: THE DECISION TO TREAT: Patient selection and response prediction
- Preliminary physiological function tests
- CLINICAL PRACTICE: TECHNICAL ISSUES: Dosage and serum levels
- Kinetics and tissue distribution
- Excretion
- Measurement of serum lithium levels
- The 12-hour standardized serum lithium
- Laboratory monitoring
- CLINICAL PRACTICE: TREATMENT IN PROGRESS: Relapse
- Terminating treatment
- Psychological aspects of treatment
- Lithium self-help groups
- CLINICAL PRACTICE: PATIENT FACTORS: Sex differences
- Pregnancy, delivery and lactation
- Concomitant physical illness
- Risk factors
- CLINICAL PRACTICE: TREATMENT COMBINATIONS: Antidepressants
- Antiepileptic drugs
- Electrocnvulsive therapy
- Diuretics
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- EFFECTS ON ORGANS AND SYSTEMS: Body weight
- The gastrointestinal system
- The immune system
- Brain and nervous system
- Sexual functioning
- THE MODERN CONTEXT: Economics of lithium therapy
- The status of lithium therapy in psychiatry
- The future.
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