Lithium is a medication meant to stabilize mood and is most commonly used in people with bipolar disorder, depression, or schizoaffective disorder.

New bipolar disorder research highlights a wearable lithium sensor, how mood stabilizers affect thinking, and fathers’ ...

HealthDay News — Patients with bipolar disorder taking lithium have lower rates of self-harm and unintentional injury compared to those taking other mood stabilizers, according to research published ...

Common mood stabilizer side effects include headaches, tremors, and nausea. More serious side effects include changes in vision and loss of balance.

Mood stabilizers protect against suicide and all-cause mortality in patients with bipolar disorder (BD), including natural mortality, with lithium emerging as the most protective agent, new research ...

Long-term mood stabilizer use in bipolar disorder Mixed and psychotic features and comorbid anxiety disorder were also associated with poor treatment response. About one-third of patients receiving ...

Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings. "Bipolar disorder is characterized by periods of weeks or months of either depression or mania," explains Dr. Mark Weiser, professor and chair ...

Source: Francesco Mocellin / Used with permission Interest in lithium has been renewed in recent years, not only as a classic mood stabilizer for bipolar illness but also as a potential low-dose ...

NEW YORK (MedscapeWire) May 23 — Lamotrigine (Lamictal) has distinct and perhaps complementary mood-stabilizing effects for the treatment of bipolar disorder, according to presentations on May 20 and ...