...F. Tonioni; G. Martinotti; A. Barra; D. Martinelli; G. Autullo; C. Rinaldi; D. Tedeschi; L. Janiri; P. Bria Introduction: Magnesium influences the nervous system via its actions on the release and metabolism of neurotransmitters, and abnormal magnesium metabolism has been implicated in several...

...George K. Kirov; Kamen N. Tsachev Plasma magnesium (Mg) levels were estimated in 15 schizophrenic, 10 depressed, 6 manic and 6 pre-senile Alzheimer’s disease patients and compared with those in 303 healthy controls. The schizophrenic and depressed patients showed lower levels, but the levels were...

...J. Levine; A. Rapoport; M. Mashiah; E. Dolev Serum and cerebrospinal fluid levels of calcium and magnesium were measured in acute schizophrenics versus schizophrenic patients in remission. The acute schizophrenics demonstrated statistically significant lower levels of cerebrospinal fluid magnesium...

...Jean Widmer; Jean-Claude Féray; Philippe Bovier; Henriette Hilleret; Yvette Raffin; Didier Chollet; Jean-Michel Gaillard; Ricardo Garay The V max of erythrocyte sodium-magnesium exchange was measured for the first time in 63 patients suffering from affective disorders and compared to that in 33...

...) non-mood-disordered patients (n = 47), there were no differences in Mg 2+ levels or Ca 2+ /Mg 2+ ratios. Neither of these measures differed when comparing responders and nonresponders to antidepressant treatment. Magnesium Major depressive disorder Antidepressants Calcium © 1996 S. Karger...

...G. Kirilov Kirov; N. John Birch; Philip Steadman; R. Greig Ramsey Plasma magnesium levels were tested in a group of 155 psychiatric in-patients with a variety of diagnoses and were correlated with the severity of their symptoms. We hypothesized that lower Mg levels would correlate with a higher...

...Jean Widmer; Philippe Bovier; Felicien Karege; Yvette Raffin; Henriette Hilleret; Jean-Michel Gaillard; René Tissot No consensus has been obtained about blood electrolyte status, especially about magnesium, in affective disorders. This is mainly due to the lack of information about the distribution...

... -adrenoceptor-mediated adenylate cyclase inhibition. This result raises the question about a simple and direct relation between the clinical status of depression and the power of α 2 -adrenoceptor-mediated adenylate cyclase inhibition. Plasma magnesium and sodium yielded correlations to this α 2 -adrenoceptor...

...J. Zohar; D. Spiro; A. Novack; R.P. Ebstein; R.H. Belmaker Despite a clinical report of magnesium effectiveness in lithium toxicity, a series of acute and chronic animal experiments failed to find a positive effect of magnesium on lithium-induced death. Lithium Magnesium Toxicity © 1982 S...

...T.A. Ramsey; A. Frazer; J. Mendels Plasma and erythrocyte cations (sodium and magnesium) were studied in groups of patients with an affective disorder and in normal subjects. Baseline determinations were obtained before initiation of treatment for mania or depression. In a subgroup of patients...

...Joseph Levine; Daniel Stein; Avraham Rapoport; Larisa Kurtzman Calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) are involved in many processes related to depression. Evaluations of serum and plasma Ca and Mg levels in depressive disorders do not show consistent results. The few studies that examined...