Tiny amounts of lithium -- a natural metal -- may help protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease and other effects of aging, ...

Scientists at Harvard say they may have found a key cause of Alzheimer’s disease — too little lithium in the brain. The new ...

We may have new hope in the battle against Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have found that lithium levels in the brain are ...

A Harvard study suggests lithium loss may be linked to Alzheimer's, offering hope for early detection and new treatments, ...

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

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

In mice, lithium depletion accelerated brain pathology and memory decline, Yankner and colleagues showed. Feeding wild-type ...

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 ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston say that, based on a study in mice, lithium could someday help treat ...

A new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers found that lithium can help the brain resist the ravages of aging and ...

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