New research suggests that unusual changes in eating behavior—rather than memory loss—may be one of the earliest signs of a ...

Doctors are increasingly warning that what happens in the middle of the night can reveal far more than whether you are simply ...

There are plenty of reason you might feel off in the late afternoon and evening. Maybe you’re mentally wiped after socializing all day, or your brain is fried from hours of work. If you got up early, ...

But in people with dementia —which is an umbrella term for mental decline and can be related to a number of diseases such as ...

The authors explored hospice clinician and caregiver perspectives on behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) and their management. BPSD are common and challenging, impacting both ...

Daily and hazardous drinking among family caregivers of people with dementia was significantly and independently linked with increased odds of abusive and neglectful behaviors, a new study finds. The ...

Taking care of middle-aged patients means we doctors occasionally encounter one who is in distress because a parent has been ...

Patients at primary care clinics received more dementia diagnoses after implementation of a machine-learning tool designed to ...

For decades, doctors have noticed a rare burst of visual creativity that occurs among a small number of patients with dementia, echoing the same strange phenomenon among patients who have had a stroke ...

Over 6 million Americans live with dementia, a progressive condition that affects memory, reasoning, judgment and language ...