"This discovery is a huge step forward in our efforts to prevent dementia and neurovascular diseases." ...

Conventional treatments of Alzheimer's disease, one of the most common forms of dementia, have been largely focused on ...

A drug widely used to treat nerve pain and epilepsy has been linked with an increase in cases of dementia and mild cognitive impairment. A team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, ...

At a recent party, another guest, a nurse, asked what I do for a living. I explained that as a health policy researcher, my ...

A new risk calculator accurately estimated the likelihood of adults developing dementia within ten years after a stroke, ...

"Life is taken away from these children before they even have a chance to live it," says Megan Kempf of her two children, who ...

Older adults' driving habits revealed clues about their brain health and may provide early warning signs of cognitive decline ...

HOLLY Nayler was just days away from her third birthday when she suffered her first seizure. It was the earliest sign of a rare form of childhood dementia, a disease doctors would later diagnose ...

Abnormal behavior during rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep may signal deteriorating cognitive ability, a local study showed ...

Demand for dementia treatment in future will be under the spotlight in the House of Keys next week. When MHKs gather, Arbory, Castletown and Malew member Jason Moorhouse will quiz Cabinet Office ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If we haven’t been touched by Alzheimer’s directly, we know someone who has. In fact, more than 7 million Americans aged 65 and ...