{"id":219585,"date":"2025-08-07T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/lithium-loss-ignites-alzheimers-but-lithium-compound-can-reverse-disease-in-mice"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:05:45","slug":"lithium-loss-ignites-alzheimers-but-lithium-compound-can-reverse-disease-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/lithium-loss-ignites-alzheimers-but-lithium-compound-can-reverse-disease-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer\u2019s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lithium-loss-ignites-alzheimers-but-lithium-compound-can-reverse-disease-in-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is the earliest spark that ignites the memory-robbing march of Alzheimer\u2019s disease? Why do some people with Alzheimer\u2019s-like changes in the brain never go on to develop dementia? These questions have bedeviled neuroscientists for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School may have found an answer: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lithium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium<\/a> deficiency in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09335-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, shows for the first time that lithium occurs naturally in the brain, shields it from neurodegeneration, and maintains the normal function of all major brain cell types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the earliest spark that ignites the memory-robbing march of Alzheimer\u2019s disease? Why do some people with Alzheimer\u2019s-like changes in the brain never go on to develop dementia? These questions have bedeviled neuroscientists for decades. Now, a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School may have found an answer: lithium deficiency in the brain. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}