Triiodothyronine may be possibly associated with better cognitive function and less extrapyramidal symptoms in chronic schizophrenia.

Objective: Many chronic inpatients with schizophrenia demonstrate enduring psychiatric symptoms and various side effects of antipsychotic drugs. Several biological markers such as prolactin, thyroid hormones and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are reportedly associated with psychiatric symptoms and/or antipsychotic side effects in patients with schizophrenia but to date findings are inconsistent. The objective of the present study was to comprehensively investigate the association of psychiatric and extrapyramidal symptoms with hormones and BDNF in chronic schizophrenia.

Strange taste and mild lithium intoxication.

So far, it has not been emphasised that lithium can lose or change taste in some patients. This report addresses such side effect of lithium. A 61-year-old bipolar patient experienced taste changes while increasing lithium levels up to 1.