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 ...

Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Hemming Willis have crafted their own language so they can continue communicating as he ...

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

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

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

Portable light-based brain monitor offers a non-invasive way to detect early dementia signs, showing promise for faster, accurate, and accessible diagnosis.

A 2025 BMJ study came to similar conclusions. It suggests that people who have had a previous case of HSV-1 are 80 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer’s later in life, even after controlling for ...

The researchers believe that their findings could lead to new treatments. For example, future therapies might try to make the ...

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

Chronic insomnia may do more than leave you groggy, it could speed up brain aging. A large Mayo Clinic study found that ...

Disrupted sleep may slow the brain's waste-clearing glymphatic system, raising dementia risks. Researchers say good sleep ...