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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 (Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease | Nature), highlighting recent research in mouse models where lithium deficiency in the brain led to accelerated amyloid pathology, which could be in part rever...

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