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

Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal ...

Years of investigation by scientists at Harvard has revealed that lithium is deeply involved in Alzheimer’s disease, a ...

A study has identified a key disruption in cholesterol transport to the brain in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that the lipoproteins in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients ...

Researchers from the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham have shown that a low-oxygen environment — similar to the thin air found at Mount Everest base camp — can protect the brain and restore ...

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

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

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

Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal ...

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 ...

Public health officials are investigating whether a newborn girl on Martha’s Vineyard contracted the serious but rare ...

Researchers found that giving mice a lithium-restricted diet induces cognitive decline, but feeding them lithium orotate ...