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Lithium may reverse Alzheimer’s disease

Lithium may reverse Alzheimer’s disease: Study

Scientists at Harvard say they may have found a key cause of Alzheimer’s disease — too little lithium in the brain. The new study shows that lithium, a natural chemical in our brains, protects memory.

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Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease?

A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they used — such as the clinical standard, lithium carbonate — can be toxic to aging people at the high doses normally used in the clinic.

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Lithium could help treat Alzheimer's disease, Harvard Medical School researchers say

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston now say that lithium could help treat the 7 million people with Alzheimer's disease.

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Alzheimer's: Scientists Discover What Sparks Disease

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

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New hope for Alzheimer’s: lithium supplement reverses memory loss in mice

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

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This drug could prevent and even reverse Alzheimer’s: ‘I’ve not seen anything quite like it,’ says doc

A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School has identified a deficiency they believe could be the root cause of Alzheimer’s, and, better yet, they believe a drug could prevent and ...

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