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Lithium may help radiation target cancer, spare healthy tissue
May 04, 2009 |
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Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how lithium, a drug widely used to treat bipolar mood disorder, also protects the brain from damage that occurs during radiation ...
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New light on bipolar treatment drugs
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Lithium has been established for more than 50 years as one of the most effective treatments for bipolar mood disorder.
Possible genetic predictor for response to lithium augmentation in depressed patients
Dec 06, 2007 |
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As in most fields of medicine, psychiatry researchers are working to identify specific types of patients, through their individual genetic variations, that may better benefit from particular drugs or combinations of drugs ...
Researchers Discover How Lithium Works
Jan 14, 2008 |
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Despite more than 30 years of widespread use of lithium to control psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar disorder, scientists have been uncertain about how this drug actually works on a molecular level.
Lithium Builds Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains, Study Shows
Apr 09, 2007 |
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Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
Lithium to be extracted from geothermal waste
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique developed by a Californian company, Simbol Mining, will enable the valuable mineral lithium, widely used in high-density batteries, to be reclaimed from the hot waste water produced ...
Lithium and bone healing
Jul 30, 2007 |
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Researchers have described a novel molecular pathway that may have a critical role in bone healing and have suggested that lithium, which affects this pathway, has the potential to improve fracture healing.
Antiepileptic drugs not linked to suicide among those with bipolar disorder
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Dec 07, 2009 |
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Despite government warnings about an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions while taking antiepileptic drugs, these medications do not appear to be associated with increased risk of suicide attempts in individuals ...
Lithium chloride slows onset of skeletal muscle disorder
Mar 18, 2008 |
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A new UC Irvine study finds that lithium chloride, a drug used to treat bipolar disorder, can slow the development of inclusion body myositis, a skeletal muscle disease that affects the elderly.
Chemical signature of manic depression discovered by scientists
Feb 05, 2008 |
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People with manic depression have a distinct chemical signature in their brains, according to a new study. The research, published today in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, may also indicate how the mood stabilisers used ...
A new mouse model of mania
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Bipolar Disorder (BPD or manic-depressive illness) is one of the most serious of all mental disorders, affecting millions of individuals worldwide. Affected individuals alternate between states of deep depression and mania.
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