A small, portable device may help patients with agitation related to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), early research suggests. The pilot study,
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Palliative Care for Patients With Dementia: When to Refer?
Palliative care for people with dementia is increasingly recognized as a way to improve quality of life and provide relief
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Plant-based diet can slow down heart failure, lower risk of cognitive decline and dementia
What if you could improve your heart health and brain function by changing your diet? Boston University School of Medicine
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Nightly sleep of five hours, less, may increase risk of dementia, death among older adults
Sleep and health are inextricably connected. New research from investigators at Brigham and Women’s Hospital explores the connection between sleep
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Using iPSC Techniques to Study Genetics, Mechanisms & Treatments of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Skip to: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Parkinson’s Disease (PD) Huntington’s Disease (HD) Summary Advances in stem cell technology have enabled us
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Approximately half of AD dementia cases are mild, one-fifth are severe
What percent of patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) currently have severe dementia? Do more people have mild disease? Or are
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Caregiver burden in dementia during the COVID-19 crisis
Caregivers of people with dementia and milder forms of neurocognitive disorder bear a heavy burden. They are constantly confronted with
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Noninvasive sleep test may help diagnose and predict dementia in older adults
Dementia is a growing problem for people as they age, but it often goes undiagnosed. Now investigators at Massachusetts General
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Signs of vascular dementia in your speech – is this how you talk?
Vascular dementia is a type of dementia that’s caused by a reduced flow of blood to the brain. Signs of
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Pulse pressure: A game changer in the fight against dementia
A recent paper published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, outlines a pulse-pressure-induced pathway of cognitive decline that sheds light on why
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