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.

Unlike treatments that focus on removing plaques that have already formed, levetiracetam works differently. It blocks the production of toxic amyloid beta peptides in the first place.

Veterans and others who have suffered trauma and injuries are flocking to clinics around the world to take ibogaine. My own ...

Learn how older adults can receive optimal care despite the shortage of geriatricians, focusing on health and independence.

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 ...

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.