The new study shows that lithium, a natural chemical in our brains, protects memory. When lithium levels drop, brain damage ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Endogenous lithium may have a physiological role that affects brain aging and vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease, ...

Dr. Howard Whiner, a neurologist at Mass General Brigham who helped develop a nasal spray aimed at slowing Alzheimer’s, joins ...