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TL;DR: A 2026 medRxiv retrospective cohort study found that depression often followed bipolar manic or mixed episodes quickly, with 25% of manic episodes and 22% of mixed episodes transitioning to depression within 1 month. Key Findings First-month risk window…
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TL;DR: A 2026 cohort study in The British Journal of Psychiatry found that lithium prescribing around pregnancy was rare in UK primary care records, and most pre-pregnancy lithium users did not stay on treatment through all three trimesters. Key Findings 752,1…
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TL;DR: A 2026 study in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Reports described a treatment-resistant residual-phase schizophrenia case in which valproate helped agitation but caused hypoglycemia and pancytopenia, while lithium augmentation was followed by lowe…
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