CellWell record HH-47112
At 75 Years, Is Lithium the Gold Standard in Bipolar Disorder?
Robert H Belmaker
2025
In plain language
This opinion review argues that lithium is not uniquely a gold standard for bipolar disorder since other mood stabilizers work similarly well, and that lithium's proposed biochemical mechanisms remain largely unreplicated.
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