Predictors of interepisode symptoms and relapse in affective disorder patients treated with lithium carbonate
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 144 (3), 367-369
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.144.3.367
Abstract
For 98 affective disorder patients receiving lithium prophylaxis for a mean of 45 months, number of interepisode symptoms correlated with relapse rate. Response to prophylaxis appeared highly determined by prelithium frequency of episodes and duration of lithium treatment.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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