Update: New Uses for Lithium and Anticonvulsants

@article{Rosenberg2007UpdateNU,
  title={Update: New Uses for Lithium and Anticonvulsants},
  author={Jennifer Rosenberg and Carl Salzman},
  journal={CNS Spectrums},
  year={2007},
  volume={12},
  pages={831 - 841}
}
ABSTRACT Anticonvulsants are being used clinically as monotherapy and adjuncts in mental illnesses other than affective disorders. This review focuses on the literature for anticonvulsants and lithium in substance use disorders, anxiety disorders, and schizophrenia. Given the abuse potential and other difficulties with prescribing benzodiazepines for alcohol and benzodiazepine withdrawal, anticonvulsants have been considered as an alternative. Promising therapeutic effects have been… 
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