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Lithium may be helpful in stroke recovery

Published November 20, 2008, 8:18 pm, Johns Hopkins News-Letter

In an article in the journal Stroke, a team of researchers from Hopkins, Harvard and the National Institute of Mental Health showed that lithium may be useful for patients who have suffered a stroke, which is a sudden disturbance in bloodflow to the brain.

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