Dementia isn’t a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person’s thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than 55 ...

A research team has determined the presence of two pain biomarkers and their levels in saliva as a tool to diagnose pain, effectively and non-invasively, in people with dementia and communication ...

Dementia isn't a specific disease. Instead, it describes a collection of symptoms that affect a person's thinking and social abilities enough to interfere with daily life. There are more than 55 ...

When you’re in pain, you can usually tell someone about it. But for people with communication difficulties, that isn’t always an option, meaning pain often goes undetected, misinterpreted or wrongly ...

Although dementia patients experience severe or chronic pain, many studies indicate that they regularly receive fewer analgesics than healthy senior adults. This can primarily be attributed to the ...

Baseline neuropsychiatric profiles in older adults stratify future cognitive decline, neuropathology, and risk for MCI or dementia.

A team of investigators evaluated numerous factors associated with the management of pain among residents of nursing homes with dementia. Although more than half of patients with dementia residing in ...

The anti-seizure drug gabapentin is used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain after shingles and restless legs syndrome by affecting chemical messengers in the brain and nerves. Common side effects include ...

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, ...