Treatment
There are no real treatments, only precautions which can be taken, mainly to reduce trauma to the head and avoiding physiological stress. Melatonin has been shown to provide cytoprotective traits to glial cells exposed to stressors such as excitotoxicity and oxidative stress. These stressors would be detrimental to cells with a genetically reduced activity of protein eIF2B. However, research connecting these ideas have not been conducted yet.
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