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Troubled minds the lithium revolution

In the 1940s, an Australian doctor discovered an astonishing treatment for what was then known as manic depression. Lithium changed the way the medical establishment thought about mental illness and neuroscience and initiated the era of psychopharmacology.

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  • "Lithium revolution"@en
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  • "When Australian doctor John Cade discovered a drug treatment for bi-polar disorder, he transformed the way we treat mental illness, and spurred the beginnings of psychopharmacology. A psychiatrist and ex-prisoner of war, Dr John Cade led the lithium revolution and was the first person to successfully treat bi-polar disorder with lithium."
  • "When Australian doctor John Cade discovered a drug treatment for bi-polar disorder, he transformed the way we treat mental illness and spurred on the beginnings of psychopharmacology the use of drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. Cade's story is told in this documentary. A psychiatrist and ex-prisoner of war who received an Order of Australia, John Cade is an unsung Australian hero who led the lithium revolution. In the 1940s when Freudian psychoanalysis, electric shock and lobotomy were the dominant methods to treating mental illness, Dr. Cade was the first personto successfully treat a bi-polar condition with lithium. Dr Cade went looking for chemical alternatives to ECT and asylums and after a series of experiments, he honed in on a simple salt: lithium. His wartime experiences had convinced him that nutrition and body chemistry were determining factors in mental health."
  • "In the 1940s, an Australian doctor discovered an astonishing treatment for what was then known as manic depression. Lithium changed the way the medical establishment thought about mental illness and neuroscience and initiated the era of psychopharmacology."
  • "In the 1940s, an Australian doctor discovered an astonishing treatment for what was then known as manic depression. Lithium changed the way the medical establishment thought about mental illness and neuroscience and initiated the era of psychopharmacology."@en
  • "In the 1940s, an Australian doctor discovered an astonishing treatment for what was then known as manic depression. Lithium changed the way the medical establishment thought about mental illness and neuroscience and initiated the era of psychopharmacology."
  • "Ex-Changi prisoner of war, and psychiatrist, Dr John Cade, sought a pharmacological treatment for bipolar disorder in the 1940s ; and in so doing, marked the beginning of psychopharmacology."
  • "Ex-Changi prisoner of war, and psychiatrist, Dr John Cade, sought a pharmacological treatment for bipolar disorder in the 1940s ; and in so doing, marked the beginning of psychopharmacology."@en
  • "In a disused hospital pantry in the 1940s, an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered an astonishing treatment for bi-polar disorder. It would revolutionise the way we think about mental illness and mark the beginning of psychopharmacology - using drugs to manage psychiatric conditions. This was inspired thinking at a time when Freudian psychoanalysis, electric shock and lobotomy were the dominant approaches and patients were often locked up in asylums. The breakthrough followed years of research and experimentation and it would take two more decades of struggle before lithium treatment was finally accepted - but Cade's successors persevered. Their work has meant a chance at stability for hundreds of thousands of people, and lithium remains the benchmark for bi-polar treatment today."@en
  • "Australian doctor John Cade's discovery, in the 1940s, that lithium could successfully treat bi-polar disorder, spurring the beginnings of psychopharmacology. Notion that nutrition and body chemistry determining factors in mental health."@en
  • "In the 1940s, Australian doctor John Cade discovered that lithium could successfully treat what was then known as manic depression. Lithium changed the way the medical establishment thought about mental illness and neuroscience and initiated the era of psychopharmacology."
  • "The story of Dr. John Cade and his role in the discovery of the first effective treatment for psychiatric illness, which was incurable, right until the 1940s. Dr. Cade linked mental illness with physical problems which could be healed. Suspecting that there was a substance causing the symptoms, he set out to find a cure. This led to his research and discovery of lithium as a pharmacological treatment for bipolar disorder. Dr. Mogens Schou continued Dr. Cade's work in a set of clinical studies, resulting in unequivocal findings on lithium. This film is based on family recollections and the writings of Dr. John Cade. Information is sourced also from selected archival footage and interviews with experts in the fields of psychiatry, psychology and pharmacology."@en

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  • "Troubled minds the lithium revolution"@en
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