The Psychopharmacology of Lithium

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
An Overview of Lithium Therapy....Pages 1-5
The Psychological Approach to Drug Treatment in Psychiatry....Pages 6-11
Sensory Systems....Pages 12-16
Motor Systems....Pages 17-41
Perceptual Processes....Pages 42-52
Intellectual Functioning....Pages 53-68
Response Selection and Initiation....Pages 69-71
Acquisition and Retention Processes....Pages 72-96
Feelings, Moods and Emotional States....Pages 97-101
Verbal Behaviour....Pages 101-105
Sleep....Pages 106-110
Social Behaviour....Pages 111-135
Miscellaneous Unlearned Behaviour Patterns....Pages 136-143
Circadian and Other Periodicities in Behaviour....Pages 144-152
Drug-induced Behaviour....Pages 153-170
Problems Involved in Interpreting Lithium-induced Behaviour Change....Pages 171-187
A Stimulus Processing Model of Lithium Action....Pages 188-210
A Stimulus Processing Model of Affective Disorders....Pages 211-225
Evidence for a Stimulus Processing Model of Affective Disorders....Pages 226-244
Psychoanalytic Views of Lithium Action....Pages 245-246
A Circadian Rhythm Model of Affective Disorders....Pages 247-255
Psychological Prediction of Response to Lithium Therapy....Pages 256-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-327