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Patients were considered as excellent responders when both items improved > 66%.

Rybakowski and Suwalska ([2010]) reported good cognitive functioning in conjunction with long-term lithium treatment in excellent responders.

After discontinuation of lithium treatment, more than a quarter of the patients showed an attenuated response or unresponsiveness, and initial partial responders more likely to show unresponsiveness than excellent responders.

However, naturalistic studies have shown that about 40% of the BD patients treated with Li show no improvement (non-responders, NRs), about 30% are partial responders (PRs), and only 30% are excellent responders (ERs), presenting complete remission for two full years (Solomon et al. 1995; Maj et al. 1995; Baldessarini and Tondo 2000; Garnham et al. 2007).

Patients were classified as responders if at T3 at least 50 % reduction in headache days was achieved and further sub-classified as good responders (at least 75%% reduction in migraine days) and excellent responders (100 % reduction in migraine days migraine free).

Our study demonstrates that most of our excellent responders had multiple aberrations.

For example, Ahrens and Müller-Oerlinghausen (2001) found a reduction in suicide attempts not only in the excellent lithium responders but also among patients with a moderate to poor response to lithium.

As such, excellent lithium responders may constitute a genetically distinct phenotype that could be used in pharmacogenetic studies.

In our subsequent study we demonstrated that patients on lithium therapy who do not experience affective episodes for 10 or more years (excellent lithium responders) make up one-third of lithium-treated patients [ 17].

Five intronic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), three coding SNPs and one SNP in the 5' UTR were investigated for their frequency in a BD sample of 180 excellent Li responders, 69 Li nonresponders and 126 controls.

The studies on excellent lithium responders indicate that monotherapy with a mood stabilizer (lithium) can yield optimal results (total prevention of recurrences) in about one-third of bipolar disorder patients.