Objectives: To provide advice and guidance regarding the management of mood disorders,
derived from scientific evidence and supplemented by expert clinical consensus to formulate …

Background During over half a century, science has shown that lithium is the most
efficacious treatment for bipolar disorder but despite this, its prescription has consistently …

This mini-review aims to show a discrepancy between favorable data of lithium's therapeutic
activity and the decreased use of the drug worldwide. The data point to lithium as the best …

Background Lithium is considered the gold standard treatment for bipolar disorder (BD).
Current clinical guidelines and scientific evidence support its use as a first-line treatment in …

Background Lithium has long been considered the gold-standard pharmacological
treatment for the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorders (BD) which is supported by a …

Lithium ions have been applied in the clinic in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. In this
work, we report artificial supramolecular lithium channels composed of pore‐containing …

Background Lithium remains the gold-standard medication for acute and prophylactic
treatment of bipolar disorder. Understanding clinicians' practices and patients' experiences …

As a whole, the review by Ghaemi represents an additional confirmation about the role of
lithium as the gold standard for treatment of bipolar disorders (BD). I read with great interest …

Manic episodes are a defining, frequent and dramatically disabling occurrence in the course
of Bipolar Disorder type I. Current pharmacotherapy of mania lists a good number of agents …

The paper presents the current state of knowledge on lithium treatment. The history of the
therapeutic application of lithium began in 1859 and its introduction to modern psychiatry …