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Identifying lithium-responsive bipolar depressed patients using nuclear magnetic resonance

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.143.6.779

Proton T1 relaxation times of red blood cells were significantly higher in six bipolar depressed patients than in matched normal control subjects before lithium treatment. Times decreased in five of the six patients following 1 week of lithium therapy.

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