Greg de Moore on John Cade & the Miracle of Lithium: "The first effective medication ever discovered for any mental illness in the world" Podcast Por  arte de portada

Greg de Moore on John Cade & the Miracle of Lithium: "The first effective medication ever discovered for any mental illness in the world"

Greg de Moore on John Cade & the Miracle of Lithium: "The first effective medication ever discovered for any mental illness in the world"

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Did you know that the most important discovery in the history of treating mental illness was made by an Australian?

On Afternoon Light #194 Georgina Downer speaks with Greg de Moore to tell the world-changing story of John Cade. A survivor of Changi, who risked experiments on himself to establish that lithium could treat bipolar disorder. A breakthrough that has been compared in significance to the discovery of penicillin.

Greg de Moore is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry based at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital. Born in Melbourne of parents who migrated to Australia from Sri Lanka, Greg has lived in Sydney for more than 30 years. He has written or co-written a biography Tom Wills (Allen & Unwin, 2008 & 2011), A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football (Viking/Penguin, 2008) and Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder (Allen & Unwin, 2016).

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