Over 25 years of studying individuals aged 80 and older — dubbed “SuperAgers” — Northwestern University scientists have seen ...

Dementia affects memory, thinking and understanding abilities. Its impact can be reduced to a great extent by maintaining a ...

Dr. Zayed Almadidy highlights five modifiable risk factors for dementia, including lack of physical activity, uncontrolled ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. All types of dementia involve a gradual loss of functions such as ...

A fresh look at Alzheimer’s disease has uncovered a hidden pathway from your gut to your brain—one that carries a potent toxin and may trigger the disease. Even more striking, you could help block ...

HealthDay News — The mean time to diagnosis (TTD) for dementia is 3.5 years across all types of dementia, according to a review published online July 27 in the International Journal of Geriatric ...

Bruce Willis’ family is furious at false claims that his condition has worsened to the point where he’s no longer able to ...

When the actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with aphasia it drew attention to a common yet widely misunderstood condition. For ...

Wavebreak Therapeutics LLC has identified thiazole compounds acting as α-synuclein (SNCA) aggregation inhibitors reported to be useful for the treatment of amyloidosis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, ...

Dementia remains undiagnosed for more than 3 years on average, with young onset and frontotemporal dementia taking even ...