Alzheimer's Disease: A New Direction - Livestream

What if Alzheimer’s disease is driven not only by harmful proteins, but by the loss of a natural element the brain needs to protect itself? 

Lithium is widely known as a psychiatric medication - but what if the brain naturally depends on lithium to stay resilient as we age? In this talk, Harvard neuroscientist Dr. Liviu Aron will describe his Nature discovery that naturally-occurring lithium plays a fundamental biological role in coordinating stress-response programs in brain cells, how this system breaks down in Alzheimer’s disease, and how restoring physiological lithium levels is now inspiring new therapeutic approaches entering clinical testing.

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