Daily multivitamin may help prevent cognitive decline in older people
Cognitive decline can range from mild cognitive impairment to dementia, a form of decline in abilities severe enough to interfere with daily life.
Alzheimer's disease is...
Widely used diabetes drug metformin may reduce cognitive decline
Metformin is a drug used to treat high blood sugar levels that are caused by a type of diabetes mellitus or sugar diabetes called type...
This Alzheimer’s disease drug may help treat Lewy body dementia
Lewy body dementia is a disease linked to abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain.
These deposits, called Lewy bodies, affect chemicals...
Obesity with poor muscle mass may increase dementia risk
Obesity, an increasingly prevalent lifestyle disease, often occurs along with poor muscle mass.
This condition, called sarcopenic obesity, is evaluated based on the patients' body...
Frailty, dementia increase death risk in older people after surgery
Dementia describes an overall decline in memory and other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person's ability to perform everyday activities.
Frailty is defined...
COVID-19 may cause cognitive impairment, study shows
Cognitive impairment is when a person has trouble remembering, learning new things, concentrating, or making decisions that affect their everyday life.
Cognitive impairment ranges from mild...
Scientists find a new contributor to Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's disease is a brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks.
In most...
Treating depression timely may reduce dementia risk
Over 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, a disabling neurocognitive condition that mainly affects older adults.
No effective treatment for dementia exists but identifying ways to help...
This hormone linked to less brain shrinkage in midlife women
Estrogen is a steroid hormone linked to the female reproductive organs and is responsible for developing female sexual characteristics.
In a study from Alzheimer's Research UK,...
What foods you eat together may affect your dementia risk
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and reasoning — to such an extent that it interferes with a person's daily...