Am J Psychiatry 1986; 143:779-780
Copyright © 1986 by American Psychiatric Association
Identifying lithium-responsive bipolar depressed patients using nuclear magnetic resonance
J Rosenthal, A Strauss, L Minkoff and A Winston
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.