As well as helping to prevent the disease, researchers say their findings could support healthy brain aging in general.

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

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

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

In a provocative new study, Harvard Medical School scientists found that lithium, an element found in some foods and drinking ...

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

In further experiments using the mice, those with lithium-deficient brains developed more plaques than did animals with ...

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

What we know about the suspect arrested in the deaths of an abandoned Tennessee baby’s family members ...

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 ...