Lithium acts to modulate abnormalities at behavioral, cellular, and molecular levels in sleep deprivation-induced mania-like behavior.
Mutahar AndrabiMuatar Maknoon AndrabiRemesh KunjunniMukesh Kumar SriwastvaSamrat BoseRajesh SagarAchal Kumar SrivastavaRashmi MathurSuman JainVivekanandhan SubbiahPublished in: Bipolar disorders (2019)
Taken together, these results suggest plethora of abnormalities in the brain following REM sleep deprivation, many of these changes in the brain may be target of lithium's mechanism of action.