Treatment for Manic-Depressive Illness Restores Brain Volume Deficits

 From the PharmaLive.com News Archive - Feb. 16, 2011

Lithium, introduced in the late 1940's, was the first "wonder drug" 
in psychiatry. It was the first medication treatment for the manic 
and depressive episodes of bipolar disorder and it remains among one 
of the most effective treatments for this disorder. In the past 15 
years, as molecular mechanisms underlying the treatment of bipolar 
disorder began to emerge, basic research studies conducted in animals 
began to identify neuroprotective and perhaps neurotrophic effects of 
this important medication


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