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 ...

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

Helen Dennis is a nationally recognized leader on issues of aging and the new retirement with academic, corporate and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lithium could help treat cases of Alzheimer’s disease, a Harvard study suggests. People with the neurodegenerative condition have low levels of the metal in their brain which the study revealed, for ...