After witnessing my mum's cognitive decline and with dementia now the leading cause of death for Australian women, I can't ...

Dementia research focuses on understanding how the condition works, why it develops, and how it might be treated. Importantly, there is also a focus on how we can improve the lives of people with ...

More generally, one can argue that there is such a thing as normal or healthy aging, meaning aging in the absence of an aging-related disease. 6 That, in this day and age, senile dementia is still ...

Dementia is not just an old age problem. It can affect younger people too. Young-onset dementia can occur before age 65. It is often misdiagnosed. Sym ...

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are the commonest causes of presenile dementia. In the absence of a biological marker, diagnosis is reliant on clinical ...

New research has identified markers for frontotemporal dementia, a disease that's difficult to diagnose. Here's what experts say you need to know.

It's a presenile dementia, meaning it can occur in younger individuals, often between the ages of 45 and 64. The average age of onset is 58, with an average survival time of 7.5 years.1,2 References ...

Raj Shah at Rush University in Chicago says that adding to the evidence that treating high blood pressure can help stave off dementia is helpful, but it is just one piece of the dementia puzzle ...

We present an innovative methodology for the classification of Presenile dementia (Pd) using the Hierarchical Adaptive Multi-Domain Analysis Network (HAMDA-Net). This architecture effectively combines ...

The "neurodegenerative subtype" of Senile dementia (Box 3) was based upon severe primary atrophy of [cortical] ganglion cells [nerve cells, neurons], with insignificant atheromatous vascular changes, ...

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a typical kind of presenile dementia with three main subtypes: behavioral-variant FTD (bvFTD), non-fluent variant primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA), and semantic ...