The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located at the front of the neck just below the Adam’s apple. It releases hormones into the bloodstream that play a vital role in the body’s energy regulation.

Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; Director, Affective Disorders Research Program, Sliver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, Connecticut ...

thyroid gland_TS_505568323 Thyroid disease may be a risk factor for manic relapse in patients with bipolar disorder. BD affects an estimated 2.4% of the general population and is associated with high ...

Lithium is associated with an increased risk for thyroid dysfunction and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with incident bipolar disorder (BD), according to a study published online Feb. 11 in ...

While the developing retina shares much in common with other developing neural structures, it offers key experimental advantages. First, all seven of the basic retinal cell types have been identified ...

Lithium was associated with a higher risk of thyroid and kidney dysfunction versus non-lithium treatments in bipolar disorder patients. Associations were dose-dependent and serum level cutoffs for ...

Compared with lithium, valproate, olanzapine, quetiapine, and risperidone generally exhibited a lower likelihood of thyroid dysfunction. HealthDay News — Lithium is associated with an increased risk ...