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MORE INFORMATION ON LITHIUM
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Lithium Carbonate as an Antimanic Agent...
Lithium carbonate pharmacology and indications. Lithium has a narrow therapeutic/toxic ratio - serum lithium concentrations must be measured regularly. studies indicate that lithium may produce a transitory diuresis with increase in sodium and potassium excretion. Maintenance therapy has been found useful in preventing or diminishing the frequency of subsequent relapses in bipolar manic-depressive patients (with a history of mania). |
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Lithium Research Excerpts...
Lithium and depression, goiter |
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Lithium for Aggression...
Nutrition and Violence...
Lithium may address aggression and violent behavior |
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Lithium Treatment Guide...
Lithium information |
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Lithium, The Misunderstood Mineral Part 1...
Lithium, The Misunderstood Mineral Part 2...
Researchers found that lithium has the ability to both protect and renew brain cells. It also may benefit those with bipolar disorder, parkinson's, alzheimer's, gout, senile dementia, alcoholism, hyperthyroidism |
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Cluster Headaches and Lithium...
The chronic form of cluster is particularly well-suited for lithium treatment, with about 80 percent of patients substantially improved and remaining so for substantial periods of time. |
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Lithium's Potential Role in Preventing Alzheimer's Disease...
Linda Fugate, PhD
A research team at Wayne State University School of Medicine recently reported that lithium helps keep brain cells alive and that it should be investigated as a potential agent in the treatment of Alzheimer’s. Lithium may even cause brain cells to regenerate after a loss from disease.
Lithium is a naturally occurring mineral similar to sodium and potassium. Large amounts are used in the treatment of manic depression —also called bipolar disorder.
Prof. Bjorksten demonstrated that lithium was an effective aluminum chelator and crosslinkage inhibitor. Bjorksten stated that lithium continues to be the most effective electrolyte for aluminum detachment.
Because of its superior bioavailability, lower (and safer) doses of lithium orotate are as effective as the much higher doses found in prescription lithium carbonate.
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Rat brain and serum lithium concentrations after acute injections of lithium carbonate and orotate...
The serum and brain lithium concentrations of rats were significantly greater after lithium orotate injections than after lithium carbonate injections. These data suggest the possibility that lower doses of lithium orotate than lithium carbonate may achieve therapeutic brain lithium concentrations and relatively stable serum concentrations.
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Lithium Increases Gray Matter...
The drug also protects rodent brains from cell death after a stroke
Another study by some of the Detroit scientists hints that lithium stimulates production of new brain cells. This observation raises hope that the drug can treat strokes, Alzheimer's disease, and other conditions that kill brain cells.
Scientists find that about a month of treatment with the drug increases the volume of gray matter in a person's brain.
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Dissolved Lithium Concentrations, Gender, Race, and the Geography of Texas Suicide Mortality Rates 1980–1998: A Correlation Study...
The results suggest that counties with lower dissolved lithium concentrations in their groundwater had significantly higher suicide mortality rates.
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Lithium in drinking water and the incidences of crimes, suicides, and arrests related to drug addictions...
The results suggest that lithium has moderating effects on suicidal and violent criminal behavior at levels that may be encountered in municipal water supplies. These results suggest that lithium at low dosage levels has a generally beneficial effect on human behavior, which may be associated with the functions of lithium as a nutritionally-essential trace element.
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What Happened to Lithium?...
Antidepressant augmentation (receiving an augmenting agent such as second-generation antipsychotics, lithium, or combinations of antidepressants and anticonvulsants in addition to an antidepressant) is common in clinical settings. Although lithium currently has the most research support, only 0.5% of the patients studied received lithium as an augmenting agent.
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PubMed on Prescription Lithium Carbonate...
Over thirty research topics pertaining to studies about prescription lithium carbonate.
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