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Persistent and Lithium Help SANE Deliver Online Communities for Australians Affected by Mental Illness

Sydney, San Francisco and Pune, INDIA- January 28, 2015 – Mental illness no longer needs to be an isolating and debilitating experience.  Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) and Lithium Technologies recently collaborated to help SANE Australia develop and launch its online communities to enable peer-to-peer support for both those experiencing mental illness and those …

Lithium in the brain : Neutrons show accumulation of antidepressant in brain

Experiments with neutrons at the Technische Universität München (TUM) show that the antidepressant lithium accumulates more strongly in white matter of the brain than in grey matter. This leads to the conclusion that it works differently from synthetic psychotropic drugs. The tissue samples were examined at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) with …