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In the original study of lithium treatment, Cade reported lithium’s ineffectiveness in six patients with a diagnosis of dementia praecox. Since then, lithium has been used in at least 20 psychiatric disorders other than manic-depressive disease: schizophrenia, catatonia, periodic catatonia, schizoaffective disorders, aggressive behaviour, alcoholism, emotionally unstable character disorder, drug abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobic disorder, paranoid states, premenstrual tension, childhood behaviour disorder, mental retardation and self-mutilation, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, organic brain syndrome, mania during maintenance haemodia-lysis, and L-dopa-induced psychosis.
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Watanabe, S., Ishino, H. (1980). Special Cases of Affective Disorder and their Treatment with Lithium. In: Johnson, F.N. (eds) Handbook of Lithium Therapy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7197-7_5
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