Lowering blood pressure could reduces risk of mild cognitive impairment, dementia
In a recent study, researchers from UAB find that lowering one’s blood pressure is beneficial not only for the heart, but also for the...
How brain trauma liked to dementia
In a recent study, a group of European researchers finds that just a single traumatic brain injury can generate an abnormal form of dementia...
Most people with probable dementia do not know they have it
In a recent study, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine find that most older adults with probable dementia in the United States have never been...
High body fitness linked to lowest dementia risk
In a recent study, researchers find that women with high physical fitness at middle age were nearly 90% less likely to develop dementia, compared...
People develop dementia later than before
The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear: Your father has Alzheimer's disease. Your mother has stroke-related dementia.
In a recently released...
Video-game training may slow down or even reverse dementia
In a new study, researchers from York University's find that just 30 minutes of visually-guided movements per week can slow and even reverse the...
Better ways to prevent and treat dementia
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—and behavioral abilities so it interferes with a person's daily life and activities.
About 47 million...
Obesity and loss of muscle mass may predict dementia, Alzheimer’s risk
In a recent study from Florida Atlantic University, researchers find that skinny fat may be an important predictor of cognitive performance in older adults.
Skinny...
People with dementia diagnosis may take unnecessary drugs
A new international study led by University of Sydney shows more newly diagnosed dementia patients take medications.
Some of the mediations are unnecessary or inappropriate.
The...
What is the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and dementia?
When people talk about Alzheimer’s disease, they often think it is the same with dementia.
But dementia is actually different from Alzheimer’s disease. The two...