title: Lithium treatment in affective disorders.
abstract: 50 manic patients of unipolar and bipolar affective illness were placed on oral lithium 600-1500 mg daily and serum levels in the range of 0.49-1.23 mEq/L. A better response in bipolar disorders than unipolar was observed. Besides, a much better response to lithium therapy is observed in patients with disease of longer duration and a positive history of affective illness in blood relations. Therapeutic effect had no relationship in terms of age or sex of the patients.
authors: Lecturer in Psychiatry, M.L.N. Medical College, Allahabad, U. P.
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