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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A fresh look at Alzheimer’s disease has uncovered a hidden pathway from your gut to your brain—one that carries a potent ...

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 ...

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

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

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