Testing for Antisuicidal Effects of Lithium Treatment.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

1. New Episodes and Suicidal Risks in Bipolar and Major Depressive Disorder Patients During Versus Before Long-Term Treatment With Lithium.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2025
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2. Association Between Current Suicidal Ideation and Personality Traits: Analysis of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 in a Community Mental Health Sample.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025
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3. Prescribing lithium for the management of persons suffering from bipolar disorders: expert consensus based on a Delphi study.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2025
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4. History of Suicide Prevention with Lithium Treatment.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5. Lithium and its effects: does dose matter?International journal of bipolar disorders · 2024
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6. Anti-Aging Drugs and the Related Signal Pathways.Biomedicines · 2024
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7. Facts and myths about the use of lithium for bipolar disorder in routine clinical practice: an expert consensus paper.Annals of general psychiatry · 2023
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8. Estimating the per-protocol effect of lithium on suicidality in a randomized trial of individuals with depression or bipolar disorder.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2023
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9. Pharmacologic Approaches to Suicide Prevention.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023
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10. Evidence does not confirm that lithium prevents suicide: a reply to BschorEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022
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11. Letter of response to Nabi Z, Stansfeld J, Plöderl M, Wood L, Moncrieff J. Effects of lithium on suicide and suicidal behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022
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Corrections and comments

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  Evidence does not confirm that lithium prevents suicide: a reply to Bschor2022
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  Lithium Treatment in the Prevention of Repeat Suicide-Related Outcomes in Veterans With Major Depression or Bipolar Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.2022

Authors and funding

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Funding

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