Dementia is common, but there are things you can do to reduce your risk or slow the progression of the disease.

A mother in the United Kingdom is facing a heartbreaking reality as she fights to save her four-year-old son from a rare and degenerative condition known as childhood dementia. Tammy McDaid told the ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most commonly diagnosed form of dementia, but it’s far from the only one. In fact, most people who ...

More than 60 million people are estimated to be living with dementia, resulting in over 1.5 million deaths a year and an annual cost to the global healthcare economy of around US $1.3 trillion (almost ...

A new systematic review included 37 studies that were focused on exploring the neuropathology of the hyperactive and psychotic symptoms of dementia. Symptoms of dementia were found to overlap with ...

A new study suggests childhood loneliness may raise dementia risk by 41 per cent and speed up cognitive decline later in life.

It happens. You’re mid-sentence when you realize you totally forgot what you’re saying, or you’re driving to work—on a route you’ve traveled 100 times—but you take a wrong turn. The truth is that ...

In a study published Dec. 2 in the journal Cell, Stanford University researchers found that adults who received the shingles ...