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 ...

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The Harvard scientists found that, when added to drinking water, the compound lithium orotate “avoids plaque binding and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Lecanemab and donanemab effects lasting over three years, new treatments, trials of home injections and blood tests for ...

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