Über die antiaggressive Wirkung von Lithium

✍ Scribed by Marie -Luise Weischer

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 599 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3158
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00401678

✦ Synopsis

The influence of lithium on aggressive behavior was studied in Siamese fighting fish, mice and golden hamsters. The fish stopped fighting when exposed to concentrations of 10 to 30 meq/1 LiC1 in the surrounding water. Also in mice and hamsters which ingested LiC1 with the drinking fluid lithium abolished intraspecific aggression. Measurements of plasma and brain lithium levels revealed astonishing individual differences in the concentrations which were necessary for the antiaggressive effect. In all species normal aggressive behavior reappeared after lithium treatment was discontinued.