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onsdag, januari 17, 2018

Dr. Ronald Fieve, 87, Dies; Pioneered Lithium to Treat Mood Swings










Dr. Ronald R. Fieve in his office in 1980. He believed that Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill might have benefited from being bipolar.

Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, who was a pioneer in the prescription of lithium to treat mania and other mood disorders — while avowing that some gifted individuals, like Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, might have benefited from being bipolar — died on Jan. 2 at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87.
The cause was congestive heart failure, his daughter Vanessa Fieve Willett said.

Se: http://www.mhc.cpnp.org/doi/full/10.9740/mhc.n110748?code=cpnp-site

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