For decades, Alzheimer’s disease has been framed as a one‑way slide, a slow erasure of memory that medicine could at best delay. That narrative is starting to crack. A wave of lab discoveries, smarter ...

Every few weeks, a 65-year-old man named Rick drives an hour and a half from his home in New Hampshire to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where a nurse inserts a needle in his arm and a clear ...

In recent years, research into cannabis and its main psychoactive ingredient, Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has unearthed ...

Nearly 7 million Americans currently live with Alzheimer's, and by 2060, experts say that number could be as high as 14 million. Scientists are trying to find out why one man has been able to stave ...

Could a common metal used to treat psychiatric disorders be the holy grail that prevents and even reverses Alzheimer’s disease? In a provocative new study, Harvard Medical School scientists found that ...

During ageing, men experience a greater reduction in volume across more regions of the brain than women do, according to a longitudinal study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...