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Nature Medicine  8, 557 - 558 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0602-557

Getting balance: Drugs for bipolar disorder share target

Joseph T. Coyle1 & Husseini K. Manji2

1  McLean Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Belmont, Massachusetts, USA joseph_coyle@hms.harvard.edu

2  National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Lithium and anticonvulsants such as valproic acid have the same end result: a more stable life for people with bipolar disorder. Now it seems they may also affect the same biochemical pathway in the brain.

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