Tiny amounts of lithium -- a natural metal -- may help protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease and other effects of aging, ...

A Harvard study suggests lithium loss may be linked to Alzheimer's, offering hope for early detection and new treatments, ...

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may ...

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

Scientists at Harvard say they may have found a key cause of Alzheimer’s disease — too little lithium in the brain. The new ...

Seven years of investigation by scientists at Harvard Medical School has revealed that the loss of the metal lithium plays a ...

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

In mice, lithium depletion accelerated brain pathology and memory decline, Yankner and colleagues showed. Feeding wild-type ...

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

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

A new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers found that lithium can help the brain resist the ravages of aging and ...

New research reveals that lithium helps protect against neurodegeneration and Alzheimer's disease by preventing toxic amyloid plaques from disrupting brain function.