Ruth Langsford has called for quicker diagnosis of dementia as she spoke about the condition, which both her mother and ...

A new study published by the Alzheimer's Association links biological age measured through blood metabolites to increased all ...

A mouse that has forgotten how to navigate a maze it once knew is, in neuroscience terms, a model of what dementia does to a ...

Something fishy may be going on with a daily pill trusted by millions of Americans. Across the country, older adults have ...

A 72-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man can share the same checklist of dementia risk factors: untreated high blood ...

Dementia is a growing global concern, but the good news is that we are making substantial progress in the fight against this disease. You wouldn’t know it from the prevailing paradigm: In the U.S., ...

People who quit smoking have a 16% lower risk of dementia compared with those who continue, a new study has found.

A new study suggests that a blood-based 'metabolomic aging clock' test could help forecast dementia onset. Additionally, when ...

Losing your sense of smell is nothing to sneeze at — it could be an early sign of dementia. “Odor identification has been identified as a useful screening tool that predicts conversion from mild ...

PHILADELPHIA – Nearly half of dementia cases worldwide could theoretically be prevented or delayed by eliminating 14 modifiable risk factors during an individual's lifetime, a report from the Lancet ...

For loved ones of dementia patients, communication is often one of the biggest challenges. Not only can it be difficult for the person with dementia to express themselves, but the person can also ...

A new study links stress, depression, and aging to dementia via the disruption of glymphatic brain cleaning cycles during sleep.