Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia

The conditions where you live may influence your brain health and risk for dementia, according to a new study from Wake Forest University School of Medicine.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

A new international study led by University of Galway has found that entering menopause at an earlier age is associated with an increased risk of dementia.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of Americans with dementia who enter hospice, their course is often long and unpredictable—making […]

The time to carry out diagnostic MRI scans for dementia can be cut to one-third of their standard length, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

A major U.K. study of more than 165,000 dementia patients has found that risperidone raises stroke risk without exception, challenging safety assumptions by leaving no “safe group.”This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

A team of researchers from Concordia University and McGill University has developed a “lab-on-a-chip” device that models how Alzheimer’s disease advances in the brain.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging now have a better understanding of how the brain’s support cells communicate with blood vessels—a process that goes awry in Alzheimer’s disease.This […]

There may be a way to protect brain energy to preserve cognition—and the secret could lie on your plate. Think fish and seafood, meat, non-starchy vegetables, berries, nuts, seeds, eggs and even high-fat dairy products.This […]

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different cell types in the brain—astrocytes and microglia—communicate in response to changes in sensory input […]

New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU), Curtin University and the University of Western Australia has found no evidence that calcium monotherapy increases the long-term risk for dementia, helping to dispel previous concerns about its […]