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Summary • Iron is a two-way sword. Either its brain iron deficiency (ID) or excess profoundly affects brain function. • ID can result in reduction of brain iron by roughly 35% as contrast to a 90% depletion in the liver. Thus it is tightly controlled. It is associated with impairment of cognition and learning processes which may result from alteration in dopaminergic, at the level of its receptor...