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20 sty 2020 · One possible explanation is that mood-stabilizing drugs, such as lithium, are most often used to treat the symptoms of bipolar disorder and patients with other illnesses such as schizoaffective...
1. Lithium alone is an effective treatment for schizophrenia, schizophrenia-like psychoses and schizoaffective psychoses; and 2. Lithium augmentation of antipsychotic medication is an effective treatment for the same illnesses.
3 lut 2021 · The main outcome measure was hospitalization due to psychosis (ICD-10 codes F20–F29), used as a marker for relapse. In addition, we analyzed a composite measure of treatment failure, including psychiatric hospitalization, any change in medication (switch, discontinuation, addition), and death.
28 paź 2015 · Objectives: To assess whether:1. Lithium alone is an effective treatment for schizophrenia, schizophrenia-like psychoses and schizoaffective psychoses; and2. Lithium augmentation of antipsychotic medication is an effective treatment for the same illnesses.
20 sty 2020 · Our current study provides a plausible mechanism for the effect of lithium in the treatment of symptoms of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Thus, our data mining results indicate and confirm that lithium has been regularly used in both inpatients and outpatients and that lithium might be beneficial for the treatment of ...
Twenty-nine schizoaffective patients under treatment for at least four years at the Lithium Clinic of the University of Cagliari, Italy, were studied. Diag nosis was performed at the time of admission to the clinic, according to RDC : patients who had shown symptoms suggestive of schizophrenia for at least one
Acute Treatment. Even when lithium was first used in psychiatry, it was observed by several investigators that lithium was also effective in more or less "atypical" cases of affective disorders, and that lithium acted on both affective and schizophrenic symptoms (Taylor 1986).
