British contributions to the therapeutic use of John Cade's lithium.

Br J Psychiatry

Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia.

Published: September 2024

AI Article Synopsis

  • The text talks about the 75th anniversary of a important paper by John Cade, who discovered that lithium can help treat people with manic episodes.
  • It mentions that there was other important research in Britain that supported Cade's findings about lithium.
  • However, some British experts had opinions that might have stopped lithium from being used in medical treatments for some time.

Article Abstract

Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of John Cade's seminal publication that first reported lithium's antimanic efficacy, we briefly recount the salient findings of the historic paper and draw attention to the important psychiatric research in Britain that reinforced its findings and the critical British opinions that likely impeded its clinical use.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.155DOI Listing

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