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Ageing as a risk factor for lithium neurotoxicity at therapeutic serum levels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alastair Flint*
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Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Canada M5G 2C4
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993 

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