Sentence examples for level of lithium from inspiring English sources
Different blood chemistry leads to different mental processes; e.g. depending on the level of lithium (or Valium or Prozac) in his blood, he makes different decisions (on both routine matters and matters of great consequence--even life and death).
There was a woman whose repeated falls and severe tremor were erroneously attributed by five doctors — one of them her husband — to rapidly worsening Parkinson's disease, not an out-of-whack and easily remedied level of lithium, a drug that hadn't been properly monitored.
The mean serum level of lithium was 0.74 (SD 0.19) mmol/l.
A positive association was suggested between serum level of lithium and working memory (bipolar: p = 0.039).
In psychiatric samples, there are some preliminary findings suggesting effects of serum level of lithium; both worsened verbal learning, memory, and executive function (Bora et al. 2007; Squire et al. 1980) and improved short term memory (Squire et al. 1980) associated with higher serum levels are suggested.
It would also be of importance to determine if there is a threshold or a specific level of lithium required for its anti-suicidal properties to come into effect and whether lithium is effective in reducing suicidal behavior in other psychiatric diseases.
Blood levels of lithium are checked regularly; it is ineffective if the level is too low and risky if the level is too high.
Akers Biosciences, a maker of medical tests, says it has received marketing clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for one type of its diagnostic test for levels of lithium in the blood.
After her husband filed for divorce, Kenyon says that she had her blood, nails and hair tested for toxins, and found that her body had high levels of lithium, tin, barium, platinum and thorium.
This was confirmed either by prospective treatment after study enrolment (run-in cohort), or retrospectively, with blood levels of lithium and valproate at screening (non-run-in cohort).
The Raman signals display a pronounced fading of intensity already at low levels of lithium intercalation and disappear at a SOC higher than ∼10%.
