SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Cousins DA, Aribisala B, Ferrier IN, Blamire AM. Lithium, grey matter and the magnetic resonance signal. Biological Psychiatry. 2013; 73:652-7

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