[Lithium as founding the concept of endogenous mental disease].
The abnormal life--potentially the death--of the cell can be restored by a metalloid--lithium--which is nearly as common as sodium in the mineral world. This established fact grounds indirectly, contrary to apparent and scientific logic, the concept of endogenous brain disease which was until then an abstract concept because of a lack of objective evidence. Seven case reports are described.
Pascalis
J G
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Clinique Universitaire de Psychiatrie, C.H.U.-H.R.D., Reims, France.
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Brochier
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged
D008094:Lithium
Le lithium fonde le concept de maladie mentale endogène.