Lithium in Neuropsychiatry: The Comprehensive Guide

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The definitive textbook on the use of lithium in the treatment of mental disorders, this comprehensive work provides an up-to-date analysis of lithium, including:

• History


• Clinical applications, including its use for mania, bipolar and schizophrenic disorders


• Use in special populations, for example in children,� the elderly �and people with medical conditions


• The effect on the body and behavior, including neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and dermatological effects, as well as those relating to the kidneys and thyroid


• Basic findings in pharmacology, chemistry, transport in the body, pharmacokinetics, signal transduction pathways, immune function, gene regulation.


• Practical issues, such as guidelines for safe use, discontinuation issues, compliance, intoxication, and economics.

Edited by top experts from the International Group for the Study of Lithium Treated Patients (IGSLi), Lithium in Neuropsychiatry: A Comprehensive Guide is a unique and vital resource for psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists, psychotherapists and neuroscientists.

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Lithium in Neuropsychiatry: The Comprehensive Guide Review

This is a very important book dedicated

to the historic and current use of lithium

in psychiatry, as well as to one of its

founding fathers-- Dr. Mogens Schou.

The work is done mostly by the IGSLI group

([...]

Dr. Mogens Schou passed away three days

after the latest IGSLI meeting in Poland, on

September 2005. His dedication to lithium

research never wavered, and during his last

years with us, he worked on a hypothesis,

reminiscent of Emil Kraepelin's scepticism

about taxonomy and treatment of manic-depressive

psychosis-- that lithium could be efficacious

in diagnosed unipolars.

It is divided into four sections:

A. Introduction and History

B. Clinical Applications

C. Pharmacology and Mechanisms

D. Practical Issues

Each section contains numerous articles by

prominent and scholarly researchers who

have dedicated their academic and medical

studies to lithium. Many of the articles

are authored by Dr. Schou.

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, doctor and author

of many elucidative books on manic-depression,

including the tome:

"Manic-Depressive Illness", co-authored with

Goodwin, has contributed the Foreword.

The editors, Michael Bauer, Paul Grof, and

Bruno Mueller-Oerlinghausen have collected

articles that have cover every aspect of

lithium. The book is particularly focused

on medical aspects of lithium findings and

treatment guidelines, making it an invaluable

book for practitioners. Yet it is clearly

orgnized and varied enough tht laymen too can

benefit by reading many parts, especially

Part D: Practical Issues.

The books is large (532 pp) and I couldn't

help but notice that it is easy on the eyes,

with its generous spacing and larger-than-usual

font size. It is hard-cover and not cheap,

but worth every dollar as "The" Lithium Guide

for doctors and laymen.

I am very happy that IGSLI members have brought

the Cinderella drug out of the ashes just in time.

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