Mood stabilizers are medications that are used to treat the symptoms of bipolar disorder -- also known as manic depressive illness. Typically they include some of the anti-seizure medications, as ...

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 online May 11 ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide are hopeful a recent biological discovery could lead to the precision treatment ...

Lithium is a naturally occurring salt that has mood stabilizing effects in the treatment of bipolar disorder. It's most effective for the mania of bipolar disorder that can also prevent the ...

Glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK3β) is a central figure in many intracellular signaling systems and is directly regulated by lithium. Substantial evidence now indicates that an important ...

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This includes evidence that use of mood stabilizers such as lithium is associated with increased grey matter volume especially in brain regions underpinning mood regulation, as well as ...

Fruit flies live 16 percent longer than average when given low doses of the mood stabilizer lithium, according to a study. How lithium stabilizes mood is poorly understood but when the scientists ...

Medical professionals have prescribed lithium to individuals as a treatment for mania, hypomania and depression associated with bipolar disorder and as a mood stabilizer.

Lithium is a kind of mood stabilizer often prescribed as a treatment for bipolar treatment. It is a drug known to reduce the intensity of mania episodes as well as treat symptoms of depression. It ...