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Citation

Judd LL, Hubbard B, Janowsky DS, Huey LY, Takahashi KI. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 1977; 34(3): 355-357.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1977, American Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

320957

Abstract

The responses of 24 normal male subjects were compared after weeks of placebo administration and two weeks of lithium carbonate administration (mean serum lithium level, 0.9 mEq/liter) on a series of tasks of intellectual function, aesthetic judgement, and semantic creativity. This was a placebo-controlled, split-half crossover, double-blind design. There were no significant changes on semantic creativity or aesthetic perception measures following lithium carbonate maintenance. There were lithium carbonate-related performance deficits on three of five performance tasks concerned with cognitive and/or motor functions. The deficit is probably due to a lithium carbonate-induced slowing of performance, consistent with our previous report of subjective effects in normal subjects. The implications of slowing on possible behavioral mediating mechanisms by which lithium carbonate exerts its clinical effects are discussed.


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