Abstract Suicide contributes to 1–4% of deaths worldwide every year. We conducted a
systematic review aimed at summarizing evidence on the use of lithium for the prevention of …

In the last decades, the conceptualization of schizophrenia has dramatically changed,
moving from a neurodegenerative process occurring in early adult life to a …

Suicide is a public health crisis with limited treatment options. Ketamine has demonstrated
rapid and robust improvements in suicidal ideation (SI). The parent study for the secondary …

Background: Lithium in drinking water may have significant mental health benefits. We
investigated the evidence on the association between lithium concentrations in drinking …

Study Objectives: Insomnia and suicide ideation/behavior/death (SIB) are common in
psychiatric disorders. There is evidence that clozapine and lithium have antisuicidal …

Background The epidemiology of suicide within the elderly is unique to each cultural setting.
In most countries, despite the higher rate of suicide attempts among adolescents and young …

The aim of the present study was to identify a cut-off of c-reactive protein (c-RP) potentially
predictive of high-lethality suicide attempts (SA) in an inpatient psychiatric sample. After …

Suicidal behavior is more prevalent in bipolar disorders than in other psychiatric illnesses. In
the last thirty years evidence has emerged to indicate that long-term treatment of bipolar …

Objective Prior studies report conflicting results about the association between lithium use
and all-cause mortality. In addition, data are scarce on this association among older adults …

Although the mood stabilizer lithium is a first-line treatment in bipolar disorder, a substantial
number of patients do not benefit from it and experience side effects. No clinical tool is …