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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Medication fog can mimic or worsen dementia in the elderly
Claire Dinneen’s daughters thought that worsening dementia was causing her growing confusion, but her doctor suspected something else. Dr. Pei
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Dementia symptoms: The lesser known signs of the condition you need to know
Dementia is a general term used to describe brain damage caused by different diseases. It is more common in those
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Antibiotics could be promising treatment for form of dementia
Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine have found that a class of antibiotics called aminoglycosides could be
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New hope for dementia patients: Harvard researchers find a woman who is immune to Alzheimer’s
In a Colombian family, all ill almost, sooner or later, Alzheimer’s to a woman. Today it is well over 70
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The right way to deal with dementia patients: From the torment of the many questions
“Aunt Ellie, do you know who I am?” “Oh grandma, this is not a fork.” “Come on dad, now it’s
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