SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Thelwall P and Cousins DA. Lithium magnetic resonance imaging in bipolar disorder: non-invasive, direct, in vivo imaging of a drug in its target organ. Psychoradiology. 2025; 5 (online ahead of print)

Strawbridge R, Myrtle S, Carmellini P, Hampsey E, Cousins DA, Young AH. A survey exploring people’s experience with lithium bought as a supplement. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2025 (online ahead of print)

Little B, Flowers C, Blamire A, Thelwall P, Taylor JP, Gallagher P, Cousins DA, Wang Y. Multivariate brain-cognition associations in euthymic bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 2025; 26(6): 604-606

Jayakody K, McKinnon I, Cousins DA. Staff observational differences between depressive disorders and personality disorders. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 2025; 32(3): 591-603

Shil RSK, Seed A, Franklyn NE et al. Patients with neurological of psychiatric complications of COVID-19 have worse long-term functional outcomes: COVID-CNS – a multicentre case-control study. Scientific Reports. 2025; 15(1): 3443

Little B, Alyas N, Surtees A, Winston GP, Duncan JS, Cousins DA, Taylor JP, Taylor P, Leiberg K, Wang Y. Brain Morphology Normative modelling platform for abnormality and Centile Estimation (Brain MoNoCle). Preprint - ArXiv:2406.01107v3

Neal MA, Strawbridge R, Wing VC, Cousins DA, Thelwall PE. Humans brain 7Li-MRI following low-dose lithium dietary supplementation in healthy participants. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2024; 360: 139-145

Ou AH, Rosenthal SB, Adli M et al. Lithium response in bipolar disorder is associated with focal adhesion and PI3K-Akt networks: a multi-omics replication study. Translational Psychiatry. 2024; 14(1): 109

Jayakody K, Gallagher P, Lloyd AJ, Cousins DA. A quantitative analysis of the relationship between affective state and personality ratings in in patient depression (RAPID). Psychological Medicine. 2023; 53(8): 3416-25

Strawbridge R, Kerr-Gaffney J, Bessa G, Loschi G, Freitas HLO, Cousins DA, Juruena MF, Young AH. Identifying the neuropsychiatric health effects of low-dose lithium interventions: A systematic review. Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews. 2022; 144:104975

Cousins DA, Barnes TRE, Young AH, Delgado O, Paton C. Plus ca change? Switching lithium preparations. BJPsych Bulletin. 2022; 18:1-6

Lucini-Paioni S, Squarcina L, Cousins DA, Brambilla P. Lithium effects on hippocampus volumes in patients with bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2021; 294: 521-526

McAllister-Williams RH, Bulmer S, Newton K, Heath K, Cousins DA, Currie A. Assessment for vagus nerve stimulation in patients with difficult to treat depression: a model from the Newcastle Regional Affective Disorders Service (RADS). Journal of Affective Disorders. 2021; 280: 315-318

Bellivier F, Young AH, Scott J, Etain B, Cousins DA. Make lithium great again - precisely! Bipolar Disorders. 2021; 23(2):209-210

Necus J, Smith FE, Thelwall PE, Flowers CJ, Sinha N, Taylor PN, Blamire AM, Wang Y, Cousins DA. Quantitation of brain proton longitudinal relaxation (T1) in lithium-treated and lithium-naive patients with bipolar disorder in comparison to normal controls. Bipolar Disorders. 2021; 23(1):41-48

Cousins DA, Squarcina L, Boumezbeur F, Young AH, Bellivier F. Lithium: Past, present and future. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020; 7(3):222-224

Scott J, Hidalgo-Mazzei D, Strawbridge R et al. Prospective cohort study of early biosignatures of response to lithium in bipolar-I-disorders: an overview of the H2020 funded R-LiNK initiative. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders. 2019;7(1):20

Necus J, Smith FE, Thelwall PE, Flowers CJ, Taylor PN, Blamire AM, Cousins DA, Wang Y. White matter microstructural properties in bipolar disorder in relationship to the spatial distribution of lithium in the brain. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2019; 253:224-231

Reinbold CS, Forstner AJ, Hecker J et al. Analysis of the influence of microRNAs in lithium response in bipolar disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2018; 9:207

Martin D, Hurlbert A, Cousins DA. Sleep disturbance and the change from white to red lighting on an old age psychiatry ward: a quality improvement project. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. 2018; 32(3): 379-383

Smith FE, Thelwall PE, Necus J, Bennett CJ, Blamire AM and Cousins DA. 3D 7Li MRI of brain lithium distribution bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 2018; 23(11):2184-2191

Smart C, McAllister-Williams H, Cousins DA. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in treatment-resistant psychotic depression. Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. 2018; 8(1): 59-61

Hou L, Heilbronner U, Degenhardt F et al. Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study. Lancet. 2016; 387(10023):1085-93

Cousins DA, Grunze H. Interpreting magnetic resonance imaging findings in bipolar disorder. CNS Neuroscience Therapeutics. 2012; 18(3): 201-207

Smith FE, Cousins DA, Thelwall PE, Ferrier IN, Blamire AM. Quantitative lithium magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the normal human brain on a 3T clinical scanner. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2011; 66(4): 945-949

Palaniyappan L, Cousins DA. Brain networks : foundations and futures in bipolar disorder. Journal of Mental Health. 2010; 19(2): 157-167

Kenny ER, O'Brien JT, Cousins DA, Richardson J, Thomas AJ, Firbank MJ, Blamire AM. Functional connectivity in late-life depression using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2010; 18(7): 643-651

Cousins DA, Moore PB, Watson S, Harrison L, Ferrier IN, Young AH, Lloyd AJ. Pituitary volume and third ventricle width in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010; 35(7): 1074-1081

Cousins DA, Aribisala B, Ferrier IN, Blamire AM. Lithium, grey matter and the magnetic resonance signal. Biological Psychiatry. 2013; 73:652-657

Lloyd AJ, Moore PB, Cousins DA, Thompson JM, McAllister VL, Hughes JH, Ferrier IN, Young AH. White matter lesions in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 2009; 120(6): 481-91.

Cousins DA, Butts K, Young AH. The role of dopamine in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders. 2009; 11:787-806

Cousins DA, Young AH. The armamentarium of treatments for bipolar disorder – a review of the literature. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007; 10(3): 411-31.

Pakrasi S, Thomas A, Mosimann UP, Cousins DA, Lett D, Burn DJ, O'Brien JT, McKeith IG. Cholinesterase inhibitors in advanced Dementia with Lewy bodies: increase or stop? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2006; 21(8): 719-721

El-Badri SM, Cousins DA, Parker S, Ashton HC, McAllister VL, Ferrier IN, Moore P. Magnetic resonance imaging abnormalites in young euthymic patients with bipolar affective disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2006; 189: 81-82