While companies developing drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease have spent decades and many billions of dollars targeting ...

Lithium-a decades-old treatment for bipolar disorder-may hold potential neuroprotective benefits beyond mood stabilization.

A clinical trial suggests that low-dose lithium may slow the decline of verbal memory in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and amyloid-beta.

Lithium—a decades-old treatment for bipolar disorder—may hold potential neuroprotective benefits beyond mood stabilization.

Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors ...

This means most older adults will be cared for by clinicians without specialized geriatric training. But older patients and families can still steer care in the right direction by using a ...

Older adults dealing with depression often face compounding challenges when they become intensely fearful of their own physical and mental symptoms. A recent study reveals that this specific fear is ...

Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide. Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only ...