Editing Lithium (section)

=== Medicine ===
{{Main|Lithium (medication)}}
Lithium is useful in the treatment of [[bipolar disorder]].<ref name="kean">{{cite book |last=Kean |first=Sam |title=The Disappearing Spoon |url=https://archive.org/details/disappearingspoo0000kean |url-access=registration |date=2011}}</ref> Lithium salts may also be helpful for related diagnoses, such as [[schizoaffective disorder]] and cyclic [[major depressive disorder]]. The active part of these salts is the lithium ion Li<sup>+</sup>.<ref name="kean" /> Lithium may increase the risk of developing [[Ebstein's anomaly|Ebstein's cardiac anomaly]] in infants born to women who take lithium during the first trimester of pregnancy.<ref name="pmid18982835">{{cite journal |author=Yacobi S |author2=Ornoy A |title=Is lithium a real teratogen? What can we conclude from the prospective versus retrospective studies? A review |journal=Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=95–106 |date=2008 |pmid=18982835}}</ref>