[ConservativeMind]

A little lithium early on could permanently autism symptoms, it appears.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Strict9]

Those mice are going to be so happy! (these things never move beyond mice)

[JJBookman]

...the real question is, why is there such an explosion of autism in recent years?

[SpaceBar]

More tortured mice for one more insignificant data point.

[bgill]

So, let little Johnny teeth on a battery.

What about his thyroid and kidneys? Or do mice not live long enough to test those.

[9422WMR]

Good for the brain and the battery? Who would have guessed?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is an odd twist to the history of medicinal lithium.

In WWII, there was a military hospital in Australia that had a lot of combat fatigue and psychiatric patients. But for whatever reason, instead of ordinary table salt for their meals, they used a cheap and plentiful salt substitute, lithium salt.

A smart doctor noticed that some patients really liked lithium salts, and for a time their mental condition markedly improved after consuming it.

[PsyCon]

The search for (and use of) a pharmaceutical treatment for every disorder, syndrome, and symptom is problematic. Hopefully, actual randomized double blind studies of humans will take place before this use for lithium migrates to acceptable clinical usage.

One other thought, the proliferation of this diagnosis and the diagnosis of many other disorders needs serious critical thought, at times skeptical thought. Primary care providers and many specialists need to seriously engage our brains. Tender-hearted feelings for a patient or family's complaints need to be re-acquainted and engaged with tough-minded thinking. I could say more, such as actually obtaining, reading, and contemplating the medical, educational and occupation records (but then my skepticism would be showing.)

[sima_yi]

Read the article and also some of the references contained therein. Very interesting.

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