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So welcome back to the podcast.

This is Dr. David Puder, and today I am joined with Dr. Walter Brown from Brown University.

He is a psychiatrist out there who recently wrote a book called Lithium, and I was looking

through the list of new books on psychiatry coming out, and I saw this book, and I'm very

curious about the history of Lithium and the history of psychiatry in general, so I thought

I would have Dr. Walter Brown come on and tell us what he has learned through studying

this topic.

So welcome to the podcast.

Nice to be here.

So tell me a little bit about yourself and how you got interested in this topic.

Well, I've been a psychiatrist for more than 40 years, and a lot of my career has been

as a full-time academic, doing research into various features of biological psychiatry

with a particular emphasis on the endocrine system, as it applies to psychiatric illness

and also psychopharmacology, and I also am interested in the history of psychiatry.

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