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.

Researchers suggest that the way Alzheimer's reshapes our brains is as unique as our fingerprints, challenging long-held ...

Prevalence of dementia is increasing due to longer life expectancy. Exclude reversible causes of dementia first. The common dementia syndromes in clinical practice are Alzheimer's disease ...

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 ...

A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin ... with cognitive function and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of brain atrophy and vascular injury in healthy ...

A recent poll showed 75% of voters ... Multi-infarct dementia is one type of vascular dementia. Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD ...

p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Diffusion MRI, recognized as the gold standard for determining the core of acute ischemic infarction (22), provides the most accurate assessment but ...

Medical researchers conducted the largest-ever genome-wide association study of all-cause dementia, finding substantial genetic overlap with vascular dementia. In landmark research, scientists at ...

Testing for Alzheimer’s disease can be a long, costly, and tiresome process for patients, but researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been working to make the testing process easier ...