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

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

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

Dementia affects 57 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and is one of the most common causes of death globally. While memory loss is one of the most widely known ...

Dementia is an umbrella term that describes multiple forms of cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer’s disease (the most common form of dementia), vascular dementia and Parkinson’s, according to ...

Dr. Georgina Aldridge (left) works with Kalpana Gupta, a postdoctoral researcher in Aldridge’s lab at UI Health Care. (University of Iowa Health Care) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...

Frontotemporal dementia is a brain disease that affects the parts of your brain responsible for behavior, speech and memory. “Frontotemporal” stems from the names frontal and temporal lobes, which are ...

An international study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden demonstrates that it is possible to detect subtle changes in the brain and identify early signs of hereditary ...

EastEnders legend Pam St Clement will return to our screens in December for a special episode of the long-running soap opera that will delve further into Nigel Bates' (Paul Bradley) dementia. Pam will ...

A loved one undergoing massive shifts in personality or speech can be challenging to work with. You might be wondering if it’s already a symptom of an underlying disease. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) ...