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 ...

In a preclinical study, Cedars-Sinai investigators found that boosting angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) in key immune ...

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

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

A fresh look at Alzheimer’s disease has uncovered a hidden pathway from your gut to your brain—one that carries a potent ...

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 ...

Lithium levels in human and mouse brains influence Alzheimer’s disease effects, but targeted replacement therapy may hold the ...

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 ...

A Harvard team reverses dementia in mice with a metal supplement, after showing that its deficiency drives the disease ...

Researchers found that giving mice a lithium-restricted diet induces cognitive decline, but feeding them lithium orotate ...

The grant will fund a new center at the medical school which will be one of only two in the U.S. dedicated to developing stem ...