This week we recommend a new exhibition in the home of Sigmund Freud, an action comedy about a man who feels no pain and the ...

Richard Ledes' "V13" imagines a meeting of the minds between the future Nazi dictator and Jewish analyst in prewar Vienna.

Freud's ideas are often maligned as obscure and even bizarre. Nevertheless, his works are still worth reading, even for those ...

Panelists discuss how amyloid-targeting therapies for Alzheimer disease represent a breakthrough drug class that works by ...

But until recently, those efforts have been focused primarily on the brain (where the obvious symptoms of the disease occur), leaving out a potentially crucial factor that Dr. Alois Alzheimer ...

This is the 59th instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers and stories of hope. The so-called amyloid hypothesis has dominated ...

She had been admitted under the care of neurologist Alois Alzheimer for evaluation of her undiagnosed cognitive decline. In the same year as Ehrlich’s breakthrough publication, Alzheimer ...

The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which he changed often—so the task of cajoling him to agree to ...

More than 120 years ago, in November 1901, German Dr. Alois Alzheimer took on a patient—a 51-year-old woman with “presenile dementia” who’d become paranoid, lost her sense of self ...

Not spending enough time in the two deep stages of sleep — slow-wave and rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — may hasten the deterioration of parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s ...

A puzzling discovery has left doctors scratching their heads: The brain of an American woman with Down syndrome showed all the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease, yet she remained symptom-free ...