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

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 ...

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

What is the earliest spark that ignites the memory-robbing march of Alzheimer's disease? Why do some people with ...

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 finding that could lead to new treatments.

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 ...

Erin Kelly is likely going to forget her eight-year-old daughter Evie’s name before her little girl finishes high school.

Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. All types of dementia involve a gradual loss of functions such as ...

Besides the working memory, it affects decision-making, information processing, computation, spatial awareness, coordination ...