Today's New York Times has a good article on brain injury and memory loss in a professional hockey player.

A clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s treatment has failed, and another has been modified due to serious side effects. A Phase III trial involving over 1000 patients diagnosed with mild Alzheimer’s disease showed no benefits from tarenflurbil, a...

Judging by the comments on my previous post on surgery, anesthesia and memory loss, it's common to have cognitive problems after surgery. But a new study by researchers at University of Washington in St. Louis shows that surgery does not...

The Brain Observatory, a lab based at the University of California, San Diego, studies the structure of the human brain. Its new project – analyzing the brain of a man who developed amnesia in 1957 after surgery to treat seizures...

Summary: Middle-aged people whose parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s tend to have higher blood pressure and, at least in the lab, their blood produces more proteins that contribute to inflammation. These characteristics may increase their risk...