Lithium prevents grey matter atrophy in patients with bipolar disorder: an international multicenter study.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results in a large multicentric sample support the hypothesis that Li could exert neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects limiting pathological GM atrophy in key brain regions associated with BD.
PMID: 31983348 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - January 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hozer F, Sarrazin S, Laidi C, Favre P, Pauling M, Cannon D, McDonald C, Emsell L, Mangin JF, Duchesnay E, Bellani M, Brambilla P, Wessa M, Linke J, Polosan M, Versace A, Phillips ML, Delavest M, Bellivier F, Hamdani N, d'Albis MA, Leboyer M, Houenou J Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research