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Valproate for acute mania

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Mood Stabilisers
  • Post published:26 September 2017
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

Abstract This commentary reviews valproate dosage and addresses the question of whether it is under-dosed and under-used in acute mania and hypomania. Even by the conservative standard used as advice…

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Lithium levels in tap-water & suicide

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Mood Stabilisers
  • Post published:12 August 2017
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

SummaryThere are many papers, over the last 15 years, reporting that violence and suicide is lower in areas where the natural lithium intake from municipal reticulated tap-water supplies is higher.However, there is…

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Lithium: recent advances

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Mood Stabilisers
  • Post published:24 July 2017
  • Post last modified:15 February 2026

SummaryThis commentary is an outline of recent advances concerning lithium research and treatment.The poor management of lithium treatment by psychiatrists, about which I first commented over thirty years ago, has…

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Professor Gillman

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Other
  • Post published:6 June 2017
  • Post last modified:18 June 2022

Professor Gillman?    The ‘H-index’ average for Professors in medicine is around 15 (1). Mine is 28 as of December 2021. I have become increasingly aware of the extent to…

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