Cathrin Sauer

TL;DR: The evidence base for lithium in the long-term treatment of bipolar disorders has strengthened and lithium remains the most valuable treatment option in this indication.

TL;DR: Whether carrying the APOE-4 allele influences hemispheric asymmetry in the entorhinal cortex and the hippocampus among patients with Alzheimer's disease as well as in middle-aged and older cognitively healthy individuals is investigated.

TL;DR: This trial demonstrated that patients treated with levothyroxine did numerically better than those treated with placebo; however, the study failed to detect a statistically significant difference between the 2 groups in the primary outcome measure due to a high placebo response rate.

TL;DR: The data suggest that bipolar patients with a long illness history and effective prophylactic treatment do not reveal significantly impaired general cognitive functioning or verbal learning and memory, however, they are worse at processing early visual information.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that National Suicide Prevention Programs are effective, but this effect seems to correlate with age and sex, and implies that the implementation of a national strategy is an effective tool to reduce suicide rates.