Texas: Study of 10 years
showing that the incidence rates of suicide, homicide, and rape are significantly higher in counties whose drinking water supplies contain little or no lithium than in counties with water that has lithium
Another study showing chronic lithium users exhibit larger hippocampal volumes relative to their peers who are either unmedicated or undergoing other forms of treatment. This suggests that lithium treatment may normalize hippocampal volume reductions observed in psychiatric disorder patients, either by protecting existing neurons or by promoting neurogenesis (neurone regeneration)
The hippocampus is a brain area which regulates learning, memory, cognition, and mood, and large mega-analyses from the ENIGMA neuroimaging consortium suggest smaller hippocampal volumes are a common feature amongst psychiatric disorder patients
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Lithium is very commonly prescribed?
Honestly, mental illness is becoming more common because those mental illnesses get endlessly talked about on TV.
Whether it’s multi personality syndrome, anorexia or transgenderism. 50 years ago, the number of people who had those disorders could probably be counted with the fingers on one hand.
Then the media began endlessly covering those disorders and-voila- those disorders became orders of magnitude more common.