The current law around Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) does not allow its application in dementia, which can impact a person ...

People with cognitive impairments have fewer gut microbes and less microbial diversity. That’s good news because we can ...

The most impactful gene is the apolipoprotein E-e4 gene (APOE-e4) – people who carry two APOE-e4 copies have 12 times the ...

A lack of diversity in genomic studies for dementia could limit the effectiveness ... data and analyze different populations to define the extent of C9orf72 spread, mosaicism (the presence of ...

Some evidence suggests melatonin may help improve sleep-wake cycles, sundowning symptoms, and cognitive performance in people with dementia, but more research is necessary. Melatonin is a hormone ...

[15] Naming is typically impaired in dementia, and the types of errors ... Additional tests in comprehension can also include asking the definition of words to test the patient's semantic ...

In the months after my partner, Alex, was diagnosed with dementia in 2019, more than one person advised me to “save” myself. What they meant was that I should move Alex into an assisted-living ...

Nearly half of all dementia cases could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing 14 possible risk factors, including vision loss and high cholesterol. That is the key finding of a new ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...

In some types of dementia, like frontotemporal, changes to behaviour such as a loss of empathy and sense of humour, or becoming angry, can be signs too. The NHS recommends keeping a diary of ...

It took 19 years for the symptoms to emerge. Tom Beyrer, who served for six months as a police officer at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, was 65 when his ...