Loneliness increased the risk for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and cognitive impairment, ...

The two FDA-approved drugs have demonstrated in clinical trials the capability to slow cognitive decline by several months, The Washington Post reported Oct. 8.

Researchers have identified individuals with increased risk for dementia using mobility data, recorded during a smartphone-based way-finding task on the university campus. The findings show the ...

What I really hope for is to be functional and continue to do as many things as I can possibly do,” says Virginia Arey of ...

A research team comprising several researchers within the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has ...

International research, which involved more than 600,000 people, found feeling lonely increases the risk for dementia by 31% ...

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified a new genetic marker that could play a role in the ...

Researchers have found that the drug dronabinol — a synthetic version of the psychoactive THC compound in cannabis — helped ...

We thought of] all these potential chemical and other environmental things that are happening that were causing some of her ...

Dementia is a devastating disease that impacts one in 10 older Americans. But while many people want to avoid developing dementia, the exact causes of the condition have remained largely a mystery.

Brain cells use a lot of nutrients which means they make a lot of waste. Scientists have long thought the brain has special ...

Police officers in Florida now are required to undergo training on how to interact with people living with dementia.