A new study published in the European Journal of Neuroscience has found that the brains of cats with dementia change in a ...

The link between diabetes and dementia is becoming increasingly clear. New research shows how blood sugar problems affect ...

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

It sounds like science fiction. Scientists take ordinary skin or blood cells, rewind them to a stem-cell state, then ...

The brain has its own waste disposal system—known as the glymphatic system—that's thought to be more active when we sleep.

A new study demonstrates that brain iron levels, measured with a special MRI technique, can predict cognitive decline years ...

They’re tiny particles – with potentially huge human consequences. Researchers from Aarhus University have identified a ...

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

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 ...

As life expectancy increases across the world, the challenge of keeping the brain sharp has become a central issue in public ...

Scientists followed more than 2,750 healthy older adults (without known cognitive issues) for an average of six years, ...