{"id":5879,"date":"2025-08-06T23:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/lithium-a-treatment-for-bipolar-disorders-might-be-a-key-to-alzheimers-disease\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:03:15","slug":"lithium-a-treatment-for-bipolar-disorders-might-be-a-key-to-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/lithium-a-treatment-for-bipolar-disorders-might-be-a-key-to-alzheimers-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium, a treatment for bipolar disorders, might be a key to Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Lithium, a treatment for bipolar disorders, might be a key to Alzheimer\u2019s disease<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A new study finds that the element lithium plays a crucial role in healthy brain function and suggests it could be used to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09335-x\">Nature study<\/a> published on Wednesday, researchers found that the brain produces lithium, and that the hallmark of Alzheimer\u2019s disease \u2014 beta-amyloid plaques \u2014 sequesters that lithium to accelerate the disease. By giving mice with mild and severe Alzheimer\u2019s low levels of lithium salts in their water, scientists were able to reverse pathological changes and memory loss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/06\/lithium-a-treatment-for-bipolar-disorders-might-be-a-key-to-alzheimers-disease\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Marissa Russo<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/08\/06\/lithium-a-treatment-for-bipolar-disorders-might-be-a-key-to-alzheimers-disease\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium, a treatment for bipolar disorders, might be a key to Alzheimer\u2019s disease A new study finds that the element lithium plays a crucial role in healthy brain function and suggests it could be used to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In a Nature study published on Wednesday, researchers found that the brain produces lithium, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2705,1428,2218,2956,858],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimers","category-health","category-in-the-lab","category-neuroscience","category-research","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}