The following column was originally published May 28, 2022. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...

By P.L. Stiles Rowan Public Library Caregiving, especially for those finding it harder to care for themselves, remains one of the most important ways to show love to family and friends in our ...

A study reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular ...

Of particular importance is research which has translational potential to benefit people with or at risk of dementia. This includes basic preclinical as well as clinical research, but not care or ...

Roger and Linda Shafer got married in 1980 on Valentine's Day. They had a family with children and several grandchildren, and ...

Alpha-synuclein inhibitors are a class of investigational therapies targeting the pathological aggregation of alpha-synuclein, a protein implicated i ...

What are the main issues of living with dementia as a younger person? Younger people with dementia experience a range of challenges, which are often different to those that older people face. Younger ...

For the purpose of designing the patient-based model for Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), the report provides historical as well as forecasted epidemiology segmented by Total Prevalent Cases of ...

Lewy body dementia, family dynamics, long-buried secrets and murder are the story threads woven through “Carolina Moonset,” the 2024 One Book, One Community selection for Hutchinson.

The National Institutes of Health reports that incidences of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia increased by roughly 148 ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...

A compound that showed early promise in the treatment of Parkinson's disease in fruit flies has also shown neuroprotective ...