Recurrent Depressions and the Lithium Ion

WILLIAM L. DYSON and MYER MENDELSONAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.125.4.544

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Lithium was successfully used to treat five patients with recurrent depressions, three of whom had typical manic-depressive illnesses. Their clinical and also their characteristic subjective responses to lithium establish a very suggestive relationship between illnesses previously believed on observational grounds alone to be related. Some term such as "lithium-responders" might appropriately delineate this group of patients.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 125 • Number 4 • October 1968

Pages: 544 - 548

PubMed: 5711818

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Published in print: October 1968

Published online: 1 April 2006

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WILLIAM L. DYSON

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MYER MENDELSON

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Departments of psychiatry and surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104

Department of psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104

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Recurrent Depressions and the Lithium Ion

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