Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston now say that lithium could help treat the 7 million people with Alzheimer's ...

As well as helping to prevent the disease, researchers say their findings could support healthy brain aging in general.

People with Alzheimer’s disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains than those without cognitive impairment, and the ...

In a provocative new study, Harvard Medical School scientists found that lithium, an element found in some foods and drinking ...

A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

Years of investigation by scientists at Harvard has revealed that lithium is deeply involved in Alzheimer’s disease, a ...

In mice, lithium depletion accelerated brain pathology and memory decline, Yankner and colleagues showed. Feeding wild-type and Alzheimer's mouse models a lithium-deficient diet reduced endogenous ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. All types of dementia involve a gradual loss of functions such as ...

In further experiments using the mice, those with lithium-deficient brains developed more plaques than did animals with ...

Lithium levels in human and mouse brains influence Alzheimer’s disease effects, but targeted replacement therapy may hold the ...

A Harvard team reverses dementia in mice with a metal supplement, after showing that its deficiency drives the disease ...

Researchers found that giving mice a lithium-restricted diet induces cognitive decline, but feeding them lithium orotate ...