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 reported Wednesday that the depletion of lithium in the brain appears to play a ...

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

Scientists have found that lithium orotate — which is different from the kind of lithium typically used to treat mental health conditions — not only stopped the brain disease in mice but also reversed ...

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

Decades of studies have shown that Alzheimer’s disease involves an array of brain abnormalities, including clumps of the ...

There has been new hope in the battle against Alzheimer's disease, this time from a surprising source: lithium, a mineral ...

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 say the new concept that lithium deficiency could be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease points to a different ...

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

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 ...

During cognitive decline, lithium is sequestered into amyloid plaques; treatment with the metal reverses symptoms ...