Lithium Goes Mainstream

The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast by Pocket Psychiatry: A Carlat Podcast

Apr 20, 20260:16:02Health

In the 1950s, a young Danish psychiatrist named Mogens Schou staked his career — and his family — on a mineral most of his colleagues dismissed as dangerous nonsense. This is the story of how lithium went from fringe cur...

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