Lithium carbonate and valproate sodium are each recommended as monotherapy for preventing relapses in patients with bipolar disorder and are sometimes used in combination. However, combination ...

Experts have described the findings as a "concern". Lithium prescribed on its own is the recommended first treatment for bipolar disorder. But the study of more than 23,000 patients across ...

In the following years, lithium became a gold standard for preventing affective episodes in bipolar illness. Furthermore, many beneficial psychiatric properties of lithium have been established, such ...

Although it is an older drug, the exact way it works in the brain is not fully known.Like other medications that are used to ...