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Lithium carbonate and mood disorder in recently detoxified alcoholics: a double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study.
- Source :
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Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research [Alcohol Clin Exp Res] 1991 Dec; Vol. 15 (6), pp. 978-81. - Publication Year :
- 1991
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Abstract
- The effects of lithium carbonate were assessed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study of a small group of recently detoxified alcoholics. The patients were treated during their 2nd and 3rd week of abstinence. A previous study demonstrated the existence in these patients of a syndrome of mildly elevated psychomotor rate, including irritability, grandiosity, an increased need for social contact, loquaciousness, and sexual preoccupation. The intensity of this syndrome was significantly decreased by treatment with low dose lithium carbonate, with no effect of placebo treatment.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium psychology
Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium rehabilitation
Double-Blind Method
Ethanol adverse effects
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Personality Inventory statistics & numerical data
Pilot Projects
Psychometrics
Temperance
Alcoholism psychology
Alcoholism rehabilitation
Bipolar Disorder psychology
Bipolar Disorder rehabilitation
Lithium Carbonate therapeutic use
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0145-6008
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1789394
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1991.tb05198.x