This time, however, the focus was specifically on dementia. While genetics play a key role in health outcomes, we're increasingly coming to understand how diet is an important factor in combating ...

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 ...

"When you mention anything about dementia, everyone is interested," he says wryly. "It's a thing that we are all engaged with, and it's a thing that scares a lot of people." But Kiernan believes ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has said it estimates that about 267,700 people are living with dementia in the community, which represents almost 70 per cent of people with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease. By Jennie Erin Smith Jennie Erin Smith is a freelance science writer.

Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia (sometimes called vascular cognitive impairment or vascular neurocognitive disorder) are both types of dementia. They have several symptoms and ...

SINGAPORE – The number of dementia cases is rising worldwide as more people live longer. Each year, 10 million new cases of dementia are reported worldwide, with the number expected to hit 78 ...

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 ...

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 ...