Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...

A novel tool known as the Florey Dementia Index (FDI) predicted onset age of mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease ...

Dementia risk is nearly 80% higher in stroke survivors than in those without stroke, with risk declining within 1 year but ...

With its visual interface and constant updates, the social web is a nightmare for people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of ...

It can be easy to mistake some signs of dementia for old age. These are the early signs of the disease you need to look out ...

To ward off dementia, older adults may want to spend more time reading, praying, crafting, listening to music and engaging in ...

The way in which we walk might hold the key to diagnosing Alzheimer's, or other types of dementia. Ground-breaking research ...

It’s easy to view cognitive decline as an inevitable slide that we are powerless to fight. But knowing the early signs - beyond short-term memory loss and trouble word-finding - could really make a di ...

A study using lab-made models of the brain suggests that a herpes virus may be a key link between concussions and dementia ...

When we think about dementia, we often think of a person experiencing memory loss and confusion. While it’s true that these ...

Bridgette Milam shared a compilation of the call-and-response her grandmother, Dorothy, and her husband, Merv, had that ...

Vitamin D also helps clear beta amyloid, a protein that plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease, Merrill points out. This is “the ...