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 ...

Kelley Mack, an American TV actress who appeared in AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” “9-1-1” and “Chicago Med,” died on Aug. 2. She ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered that lithium, known for treating bipolar disorder, plays a crucial role in ...

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

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

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

Dr. Zayed Almadidy highlights five modifiable risk factors for dementia, including lack of physical activity, uncontrolled ...

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

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 ...

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

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