You've probably wondered—maybe even worried—about keeping your memory sharp as the years go by. With so much conflicting advice out there about brain games and supplements, it's natural to feel ...

It used to be that the worst fears about aging were getting cancer. Now, the worst fear is developing dementia. Unlike cancer, for which we do have treatments like surgery and chemotherapy, we have no ...

Increasing the levels of a particular phospholipid in the membranes of brain cells may offer a promising new way to improve blood circulation in the brain and support healthier brain activity. A poten ...

Dementia has long been framed as a slow, irreversible loss of neurons, but a new line of research is shifting attention to ...

Six years later, an 80-year-old woman stepped into Dr. Steele’s clinic with anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, ...

Programmes to reduce dementia risk by targeting smoking, high blood pressure and hearing loss are likely to be cost-effective and cost saving by reducing dementia rates by 8.5%, finds a new study by ...

Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics, health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and co-director of the Penn Memory Center. A recent ...

Vitamin D supplementation has the potential to be a viable dementia prevention strategy, especially when initiated early, new research suggests. In a large prospective cohort study, people who took ...

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias affect 50 million people around the world and numbers are rising, placing immense ...

Programs to reduce dementia risk by targeting smoking, high blood pressure and hearing loss are likely to be cost-effective and cost saving by reducing dementia rates by 8.5%, finds a new study by UCL ...

Health plans and value-based care organizations are ill-prepared to help patients with Alzheimer’s Disease or related dementia. Just 4% of respondents in a recent survey of 50 senior leaders working ...