Marissa Russo is a former STAT intern supported by the AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship. A new study finds that the element lithium plays a crucial role in healthy brain function and ...

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 ...

Lithium, long prescribed for bipolar disorder and as an adjunct in depression, is essential for brain resilience, and new research suggests that deficiency of the mineral in neural tissue may ...

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the ...

Harvard scientists have uncovered that lithium, a naturally occurring element in the brain, may be the missing piece in understanding Alzheimer’s. Their decade-long research shows that lithium ...

Alzheimer’s disease, which represents 60–80% of dementia cases 1, robs people of their memory, cognition and independence. A decade-long period of mild cognitive impairment precedes the onset of ...

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 ...

A recent study from Harvard Medical School asks whether the element lithium might be a key factor in whether someone develops Alzheimer's disease. Led by Dr. Bruce Yankner, professor of genetics and ...

Researchers led by Bruce Yanker, codirector of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research and a professor of genetics and neurology at Harvard Medical School, have found that lithium in ...