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Is there sufficient evidence yet to support the use of lithium supplementation or prescription in the management of neurodegenerative diseases?

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Neurology · University of Minnesota

No.

I assume the question was written in response to a recent publication in Nature (Aron et al., PMID 40770094), highlighting recent research in mouse models where lithium deficiency in the brain led to accelerated amyloid pathology, which could be in part reversed by replacement.

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