ALLMedicine™ Lithium Toxicity Center

Mar 21st, 2023 - Lithium intoxication is still an undefined and underestimated disease, especially those cases requiring extracorporeal treatment. Lithium is a monovalent cation with small molecular mass of 7 Da that has been regularly and successfully used since ...

Dec 22nd, 2022 - Editor’s note: Readers’ Forum is a department for correspondence from readers that is not in response to articles published in Current Psychiatry. All submissions to Readers’ Forum undergo peer review and are subject to editing for length and sty.

Dec 22nd, 2022 - Editor’s note: Readers’ Forum is a department for correspondence from readers that is not in response to articles published in Current Psychiatry. All submissions to Readers’ Forum undergo peer review and are subject to editing for length and sty.

Nov 22nd, 2022 - The use of lithium during breast-feeding has not been comprehensively investigated in humans due to concerns about lithium toxicity. We analyzed lithium in the kidneys of nursed pups of lithium medicated mothers, using analytical spectroscopy in a...

Nov 8th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Lithium is commonly used as maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder. Toxicity occurs frequently, since this population is at high risk for overdose. Furthermore, lithium has a relatively narrow therapeutic index, so relativel...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Bipolar affective disorder or manic -depressive psychosis (MDP) is a mood disorder affecting 2.4% of the global population. Lithium is considered as the "gold standard" for the treatment of bipolar disorder but the clinical use of lithium is often...

Apr 16th, 2015 - Caffeine has been in widespread use for centuries, and is the commonest psychostimulant used worldwide. In Canada, estimates of mean daily intake for a 70 kg person range from 200-450 mg. The main sources of caffeine ingestion are in beverages - d...

Jan 16th, 2012 - Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) usually have permanent and often devastating neurological deficits and disability. There has been successful research in a number of fields that may someday help people with spinal cord injuries. The planned ...

Dec 22nd, 2022 - Editor’s note: Readers’ Forum is a department for correspondence from readers that is not in response to articles published in Current Psychiatry. All submissions to Readers’ Forum undergo peer review and are subject to editing for length and sty.

Dec 22nd, 2022 - Editor’s note: Readers’ Forum is a department for correspondence from readers that is not in response to articles published in Current Psychiatry. All submissions to Readers’ Forum undergo peer review and are subject to editing for length and sty.

Oct 7th, 2020 - Serotonin, or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is a chemical neurotransmitter in the central and peripheral nervous systems that was discovered in 1940s. 1 O ne of the most widely studied chemical messengers , serotonin influences many physiologic func.

Mar 31st, 2020 - Mrs. B, age 66, presents to the emergency department with altered mental status, impaired gait, and tremors.

May 30th, 2018 - Diabetes insipidus is defined as the passage of large volumes of dilute urine. It has two major forms: central and nephrogenic. Central diabetes insipidus is characterized by decreased secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which gives rise to p...