Dr David Cousins

Lithium and the brain
David Cousins
MRC Clinician Scientist
Institute of Neuroscience
Newcastle University
RCPsych International Congress 2014
This is lithium…
Locating lithium…
Questions…
Lithium compartments by time
Hillert et al
Neuroscience Letters 2012
Locating lithium…
Fundamentals of MRS
Fundamentals of MRS
Fundamentals of MRS
1H
MRS spectrum
Multinuclear MRS
Rudimentary 7Li MRS
Renshaw and Wicklund
Biological Psychiatry 1988
Rudimentary 7Li MRS
Renshaw and Wicklund
Biological Psychiatry 1988
Rudimentary 7Li MRS
Renshaw and Wicklund
Biological Psychiatry 1988
Rapid, quantitative 7Li MRS
Smith et al 2012
Rapid, quantitative 7Li MRS
Smith et al 2012
Rapid, quantitative 7Li MRS
Smith, Cousins and Blamire, MRM 2012
Lithium MRS as an image
Soares et al 2000
Lithium MRS as an image
Soares et al 2000
Lithium 3D chemical shift imaging
Lithium imaging in the brain of patients with bipolar disorder at 4 tesla
Lee et al MRM 2012
Lithium 3D chemical shift imaging
Lithium imaging in the brain of patients with bipolar disorder at 4 tesla
Lee et al MRM 2012
Lithium 3D chemical shift imaging
Lithium imaging in the brain of patients with bipolar disorder at 4 tesla
Lee et al MRM 2012
True imaging
True lithium imaging
True lithium imaging
5 mM
10 mM
100 mM
25 mM
50 mM
Scan duration 50 s
True lithium imaging
Potential advances
Potential advances
Steady-state free precession
Incomplete dephasing
T2 adds to T1 signal
Short TE 7Li T2 measurement
Port et al
Journal of MRI 2013
Port et al
Journal of MRI 2013
Short TE 7Li T2 and response
Port et al
Journal of MRI 2013
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
40th Anniversary
Online CPD Resource
Summer Meeting
Schizophrenia Substance misuse
including comorbidity Bipolar
disorder Perinatal disorders
ADHD focussing on adults
Depression Anxiety disorders
Sleep Old Age Child and
Adolescent (coming soon)
20 ̶̶̶ 23 July 2014
Cambridge
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