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Lithium is a metal found in some foods, drinking water, and in trace amounts in our bodies. It has long been used to treat ...

Seven years of investigation by scientists at Harvard Medical School has revealed that the loss of the metal lithium plays a ...

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may ...

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 ...

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

Endogenous lithium may have a physiological role that affects brain aging and vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease, ...

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

Harvard researchers have found evidence in mice and human brains that the element lithium could be key to a healthy brain.