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Lithium Profoundly Prevents Brain Damage Associated with Parkinson’s Disease
...that lithium’s safety profile in humans is well understood greatly reduces trial risk and lowers a significant hurdle to getting it into the clinic...
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Low-dose lithium prevents Parkinson’s symptoms in aged mice with a human mutation for the disease
...argument for further studies, potentially even early phase clinical studies of low-dose lithium as a disease modifying agent in PD...
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Drug Commonly Used to Treat Bi-Polar Disorder Dramatically Increases Lifespan in Nematode Worms
...lithium impacts many genes...
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Buck Institute Study Suggests New Strategy for Treatment of Stroke
...stabilizers such as lithium–may be suitable for study in human clinical trials...
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The Buck is awarded three federal grants to target aging to prevent or cure Alzheimer’s disease.
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Andersen Lab
Lab focus The Andersen lab concentrates on understanding the underlying age-related processes driving neurodegenerative diseases in order to identify novel therapeutics that slow or prevent them from occurring...