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Susan G. Leckband

Researcher at Veterans Health Administration

Publications -  39
Citations -  3411

Susan G. Leckband is an academic researcher from Veterans Health Administration. The author has contributed to research in topics: Bipolar disorder & Lithium (medication). The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 31 publications receiving 2984 citations. Previous affiliations of Susan G. Leckband include Karolinska University Hospital & United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Prevalence of and risk factors for medication nonadherence in patients with schizophrenia: a comprehensive review of recent literature.

TL;DR: Efforts to improve medication adherence in patients with schizophrenia should target relevant risk factors, including poor insight, negative attitude or subjective response toward medication, previous nonadherence, substance abuse, shorter illness duration, inadequate discharge planning or aftercare environment, and poorer therapeutic alliance.
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Assessment of Response to Lithium Maintenance Treatment in Bipolar Disorder: A Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) Report

Mirko Manchia, +104 more
TL;DR: The key phenotypic measures of the “Retrospective Criteria of Long-Term Treatment Response in Research Subjects with Bipolar Disorder” scale currently used in the Consortium on lithium Genetics (ConLiGen) study are reported.
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Genetic variants associated with response to lithium treatment in bipolar disorder: a genome-wide association study

Liping Hou, +136 more
- 12 Mar 2016 - 
TL;DR: A genome-wide association study of lithium response in 2,563 patients collected by 22 participating sites from the International Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLiGen); the largest attempted so far finds a single locus of four linked SNPs on chromosome 21 met genome- wide significance criteria for association with lithium response.
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Interventions to Improve Antipsychotic Medication Adherence: Review of Recent Literature

TL;DR: The greatest improvement was seen with interventions employing combinations of educational, behavioral, and affective strategies with which improvements in adherence were noted in 8 out of 12 studies, with additional secondary gains.