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In medicine, it is common for a drug designed for one illness to eventually find a second use for a different condition.
But in the case of lithium – currently a treatment for bipolar disorder – the change in how we view this medicine might go deeper. Some researchers say that lithium has been fundamentally misunderstood.
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