One unexpected player may turn the tables on Alzheimer’s: lithium. Image credit: Heather Diehl/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Lithium is a mineral that can be found in nature. Very small amounts of ...

Researchers hoped results from the latest trial on low-dose lithium would settle the question of lithium’s potential to ...

Endogenous lithium levels were lower in the prefrontal cortex of people with Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment. Lithium depletion in mouse models led to increased amyloid and accelerated ...

A new study reveals that brain lithium depletion occurs early in Alzheimer’s and fuels disease progression, while low-dose lithium orotate in mice can protect against memory loss and brain damage, ...

In a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of lithium (left).

A groundbreaking study from Harvard Medical School, published in Nature, has unveiled that lithium orotate supplementation can reverse Alzheimer's-like memory loss and brain pathology in mice, ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School reported Wednesday that the depletion of lithium in the brain appears to play a significant role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. The findings, ...

A new Harvard Medical School study linking the loss of the metal lithium to Alzheimer’s disease is giving some hope to Long Island advocates, who said Friday it was a field where more breakthroughs ...

DEAR PEOPLE’S PHARMACY: My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first tried to ...

Q. My young adult daughter has been taking Zoloft for depression. She recently weaned off of it and her new doctor put her on 5 milligrams of lithium orotate. She first tried to take bupropion but ...