Make lithium great again!
Gin S. Malhi, Erica Bell, Philip Boyce, Philip Hazell, Greg Murray, Darryl Bassett, Richard A. Bryant, Malcolm Hopwood, Bill Lyndon, Roger Mulder, Richard Porter, Ajeet Singh, Samuel Gershon
Abstract
Despite its prominent position in many international clinical practice guidelines, and a renewed interest from academic psychiatry, the use of lithium to treat Bipolar Disorder (BD) has steadily declined 1 .The reasons for this are threefold: First, as there is no 'patent' on lithium, it is not being marketed to physicians or patients, to the same extent or in the same manner as other agents that have similar indications; Second, compared to alternatives, lithium is generally regarded as more complicated to prescribe (necessitating regular
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