Lithium treatment of mood disorders a practical guide Mogens Schou
Material type: TextPublication details: London Karger 2004Edition: 6th Revised edDescription: xv, 75 pISBN:- 3805577648
- 616.891
Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgments; Foreword by a Psychiatrist; Foreword by a Lithium Patient; Preface to the 6th, Revised Edition; Introduction; Bipolar Disorder, Depressive Disorder, and Their Treatment; Bipolar and Depressive Disorder; Mania; Depression; The Nature of the Illness; Are Patients with Bipolar and Depressive Disorder in Fact 'Patients'? Suffering from Mood Disorder; Treatment of Bipolar and Depressive Disorder; Electric Convulsive Therapy; Neuroleptics; Antidepressants; Lithium Treatment of Mood Disorders; What is Lithium? The History of Lithium Treatment; The Therapeutic Effect in Mania; The Prophylactic Effect in Bipolar and Depressive Disorder; Lithium Treatment of Mania; Lithium Treatment without the Patient's Consent; Lithium Treatment of Depression; Prophylactic Lithium Treatment; Prophylactic Treatment of Bipolar Disorder; Prophylactic Treatment of Depressive Disorder; Compliance; Does Lithium Gradually Lose Its Effect? How Long Should Lithium Treatment Continue? Treatment Pauses; Quiet before the Storm; When Should Lithium Not Be Given? How Does Lithium Work? Other Prophylactic Medications; Lithium Protection against Suicide; Being in Lithium Treatment; Benefits from Long-Term Lithium Treatment; Problems; Cooperation between Patient and Therapeutic Team and between Patients Themselves; Practical Management of the Treatment; Preparations; Type of Pills and Number of Daily Doses; Laboratory Tests; Dose Adjustment in Prophylactic Lithium Treatment; Side Effects; Physical Side Effects; Risk and Risk Situations; Interaction; Cognitive and Emotional Side Effects; Lithium and Creative Work; Pregnancy, Delivery and Breastleeding; Malformations; The 'Lithium Babies' at Five; Breastfeeding during Lithium Treatment; Epilogue; Supplementary Reading; Support Alliances Dealing with Depression and Bipolar Disorder; Subject Index
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