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The Tail Suspension Test
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[The lithium test, test of endogenous criteria]
J G Pascalis1, T Brochier, J Adnet-Kessous
1Clinique Psychiatrique, CHU-HRD, Reims, France.
Annales Medico-Psychologiques
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
The lithium-test (Li-T) requests hospitalisation of the patient, administration of Li to obtain a plasma/level of at the lust 0, 8 mEq/l, since the third to the eight day. It improve depressions, acute delusions, pseudo-dementias: the field of the lithiodépendent endogenic diseases as to be enlarged. The Li-T may distinguish between this lithiodependence of the other, non-lithiodépendent, in dysthymic psychotic disorders.
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