Bipolar Medications
Subtitle: Mechanisms of Action
Contributors: Husseini K. Manji (Editor); Charles L. Bowden (Editor); Robert H., M.D. Belmaker (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780880489270
Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Therapeutic use; Medical; Neuropsychopharmacology; Medical / Nursing; Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology; Psychiatry - General; Chemotherapy; Depression, Mental; Lithium; Manic-depressive illness
First sentence: Despite 50 years having elapsed since the initial report of its efficacy (Cade 1949), lithium remains a mainstay for the treatment of bipolar disorder (Post et al. 1998).