Alzheimer’s disease is not a normal part of getting older. Scientists are working hard to find out why it happens and how to ...

Type 2 diabetes is believed to increase the risk of dementia by 60%. Multifactorial mechanisms involving hypoglycemic episodes and insulin resistance are implicated in the increased predisposition to ...

The way in which brains shrink in those who develop Alzheimer's disease follows no specific or uniform pattern, finds a new study by researchers at UCL and Radboud University in the Netherlands.

By the time a person develops obvious and severe signs of dementia—things like struggling with daily grooming tasks, ...

New evidence from the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) indicates that older adults who experience a stroke for the ...

Older adults with untreated hypertension vs those with treated hypertension have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer disease.

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

The use of SGLT2 inhibitors vs DDP-4 inhibitors is associated with a reduced risk of developing different types of dementia.

"Dementia is a multifactorial disease with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia pathologies making the largest contributions—and yet, most genome-wide association studies focus just on ...

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