Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
Mad in America
JULY 13, 2024
Moncrieff, 2008 ; Moncrieff, 2018 ). But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. Ghaemi thinks glutamate is the culprit in schizophrenia, however, which is unaffected by antipsychotics ( Ghaemi, 2022 ).
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