Older adults who have experienced a traumatic injury after a fall are 21 percent more likely to later receive a diagnosis of ...

The gait also has been described as magnetic. People with NPH also may have mild dementia and bladder and bowel incontinence. A 78-year-old man exhibited symptoms of NPH for at least 4 years ...

On examination, he had bilateral rigidity, parkinsonian gait, and masked face. No history of medication could be elicited. Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a clinically defined syndrome and is ...

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 ...

The rate of antipsychotic drug use in nursing homes has remained stubbornly high. Experts are concerned about misuse.

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 ...

A history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in healthy, middle-aged adults was associated with detectable changes in ...

Scientists have developed new potential therapies that selectively remove aggregated tau proteins, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease, and improve symptoms of neurodegeneration in mice.

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 ...

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 ...

It only steps in when things go wrong, study finds. Walking is something most of us do without much thought. It seems easy to ...