Diabetes can also weaken the brain's protective barrier, letting harmful substances in. This leads to inflammation. Reduced ...

Women are at much greater risk of dementia than men—as many as two-thirds of people in the US with Alzheimer’s disease are women—and likely for a mix of reasons that experts are still parsing out. One ...

An umbrella term used to describe a cluster of neurological symptoms, dementia is not a disease in and of itself, and is in ...

Lithium can be toxic if not used properly. Further, the research is still in the early stages and it is unlikely that a ...

Death is typically caused not by dementia itself, but by complications such as aspiration pneumonia (inhaling food/liquid ...

A new Mayo Clinic study reveals that a common sleep disorder affecting over 70 million Americans, increases dementia risk by ...

The doctor established sleep requirements for different age groups, starting from newborns who need 14–17 hours of sleep, ...

Your daily diet may be silently affecting your brain health. Neurology expert Dr K. M. Hassan highlights five common foods - from sugary drinks to processed snacks - that can impair memory, focus, and ...

Folic acid, the synthetic form of folate, which is a B-vitamin, is vital for women at every stage of life, not just during ...

A school-age child has died from a devastating brain complication of measles in Los Angeles, highlighting the deadly consequences of declining ...

Much of this rise has been attributed to ageing global populations and genes, but there is growing evidence that environmental pollution is a factor. “Plastic has only been around for 60 or 70 years, ...