More Efforts Needed to Clarify the Effect of Lithium in Bipolar Disorder: Response to Terao et al

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¹ From the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; and the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Mikael Landén et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2018.

. 2018 Jan 1;175(1):80-81.

doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17070759r.

¹ From the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; and the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Keywords: Anticonvulsants; Epidemiology; Lithium; Mood Disorders-Bipolar; Suicide.

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