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Alzamend Neuro Reports Encouraging Pharmacodynamic Data from Phase II Clinical Trial of AL001 "Lithium in Brain" Study in a Trial Conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital
Potentially Distinct Brain Profile: Across multiple brain regions, AL001 and lithium carbonate appeared to trend in opposite directions in brain chemistry
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[{"type":"text","content":"Potentially Distinct Brain Profile: Across multiple brain regions, AL001 and lithium carbonate appeared to trend in opposite directions in brain chemistry measures, suggesting that AL001 may interact with the brain in a distinct manner and generate a lower neurochemical footprint than lithium carbonateExpected Trends for Myo-Inositol Reduction: Both AL001 and lithium carbonate showed a trend toward reducing myo-inositol, potentially supporting the hypothesis that AL001 retains lithium's core mechanism of actionPotentially Preserved Glutamate Balance: Lithium carbonate showed large effects across all brain regions whereas AL001 showed minimal glutamate effect in most brain regions, which may suggest better long-term tolerabilityATLANTA, April 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Alzamend Neuro, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALZN) (\"Alzamend\"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel products for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (\"Alzheimer's\"), bipolar disorder type 1 (\"BD\"), major depressive disorder (\"MDD\") and post-traumatic stress disorder (\"PTSD\"), today announced encouraging pharmacodynamic findings from a brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy (\"MRS\") analysis conducted in healthy human subjects (N=6) in a trial conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital. The study assessed changes in five key brain metabolites across 18 brain regions when participants received two-weeks of blood bioequivalent and lithium-dose equivalent AL001 or lithium carbonate relative to baseline. Early data suggest AL001 may work like lithium carbonate by selectively impacting brain chemicals where needed, however, AL001 appears to be leaving other, healthy brain chemicals more undisturbed than lithium carbonate, a potentially meaningful tolerability advantage. These interpretations are based solely on qualitative review of all analyses and need to be further statistically confirmed in additional patient populations, the first of which is currently underway.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nPharmacodynamic MRS Preliminary FindingsPotential Distinct Neurochemical Footprint: When participants took AL001, multiple brain chemicals trended downward, while the same chemicals trended upward in those same participants when they took lithium carbonate. This suggests that AL001 may interact with the brain in a distinct manner and have a less disruptive ...