Florida wildlife officials have confirmed the state's second case of a deadly and highly contagious infection known as ...

VASCULAR dementia develops when there is reduced blood supply to the brain; this occurs due to diseased blood vessels. Problems with decision-making could be a sign of the condition. Brain cells die ...

Mild cognitive impairment often leads to dementia, but known predictive factors for this conversion are scarce. Bombois et al. investigated whether baseline subcortical hyperintensity values might ...

Future Neurology. 2008;3(6):683-704. In a recent meta-analysis, CADASIL patients were reported to also suffer from neuromuscular symptoms, weakness, wasting, reduced/exaggerated tendon reflexes, ...

The VasCog-2-WSO criteria revise the original VasCog criteria for diagnosing VCID, offering additional guidance on neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers.

New evidence has found that male brains really may shrink faster than female brains with age. Among 4,726 participants with ...

When it comes to vascular brain injury, the dementia field has been mired in uncertainty. What is it, exactly? How can scientists measure and treat it? How does it relate to Alzheimer's pathology or ...

Recently, the team led by Chief Physician Quan Zhang and Associate Professor Feng Liu at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital systematically evaluated the genetic associations between type 2 ...

Women are far more likely than men to end up with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This may, at least partially, be due to women's ...

Dementia is an umbrella term for symptoms associated with brain damage caused by disease. The way in which the disease damages the brain determines the type of dementia you have and the specific ...

Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarct and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is the most common hereditary subcortical vascular dementia. It is caused by the defective NOTCH3 ...