Some evidence suggests melatonin may help improve sleep-wake cycles, sundowning symptoms, and cognitive performance in people with dementia ... Academy of Sleep Medicine’s 2015 guidelines ...

Dementia is a progressive loss of cognitive ... has been monitored to the present day. As researchers in sleep medicine and ...

The risk of getting dementia may go up as you get older if you don't get enough slow-wave sleep. Over-60s are 27 percent more ...

Patients with Lewy body dementia also tend to act out their dreams and become quite agitated and combative during sleep. This is known as REM sleep ... that limits the usefulness of this drug. Also, ...

Dementia is not one specific disease, but a general term used to describe the progressive loss of cognitive functions: ...

Memory loss is the most well-known symptom of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. But experts say there are other ...

According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, sleep is important for ... made worse by modern lifestyles. Fifty thousand patients and twenty-five years later, Dr. John is an expert on ...

Lewy Body Dementia is progressive, and causes uncontrollable tremors, problems with memory, attention, and sleep.

Anxiety and depression are significant risk factors for AD, and conversely, AD increases the likelihood of developing these psychiatric conditions. A systematic review of 14,760 studies showed ...

This was a cross sectional study of elderly patients ... Symptoms of dementia were divided into 6 sub-domains; memory symptoms, concentration, physical symptoms, emotions, sleep disturbance ...

Side effects are common for people taking medications for dementia symptoms. For most people ... dizziness or nausea – take the medication in the evening being unable to sleep – take the medication in ...

Anne Marie Morse, DO, director of pediatric neurology and pediatric sleep medicine at Geisinger Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, was recognized with the Patient Advocate Award by the organization Wake ...