Vascular dementia is the second most common type of dementia. Strokes that affect cognitive (thinking) abilities cause vascular dementia. Vascular dementia often worsens in a stepwise pattern, and ...

Why it happens: Vascular dementia results from conditions that damage brain blood vessels, leading to reduced oxygen and ...

A person’s body can age faster than the calendar suggests, and that gap may carry important clues about dementia risk. In a ...

A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this process with a repurposed drug can ...

From the subtle differences between memory lapses and brain disease to the lifestyle changes that can lower your risk, Dr Tim Beanland at Alzheimer’s Society helps you navigate the facts about dementi ...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — The factors that raise the risk of heart disease and stroke can also raise the risk of dementia. When blood vessels are damaged or blocked, it can deprive your brain of vital ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Glatter is a New York-based physician covering public health. Over the past month or so, the media on both sides of the ...

Vascular dementia is dementia due to strokes; vascular cognitive impairment is mild cognitive impairment due to strokes. Strokes, also called vascular or cerebrovascular disease, occur when an artery ...

Over 6 million Americans have dementia, a progressive brain disorder that affects memory, language, problem solving and ...

A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in middle-aged ...