Dementia is much more common than you may know, a disease that can change everything about a person without many signs or ...

The brain’s neuromodulatory system produces brain chemicals that impact mood, learning, attention, responsiveness, and memory. Brain scientists have known for decades that the system (and its ...

People could pick up on subtle signs that they might be struggling with dementia if they cannot pass a certain test. It takes ...

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One MRI scan can now reveal how quickly you're aging. Faster aging links to poor memory, chronic illness, and earlier death.

The number of people with dementia in the UK is expected to rise to 1.4 million in 2040, Alzheimer’s Society writes. As it stands, almost a million of us have the condition (982,000). Still, the ...

Participants, whose average age was 73, were given four memory and thinking tests at the start of the study and every three years ’til the research ended. They were also tested for clinical dementia, ...

Still, as Dr Brown told Alzheimer’s Society, “Dementia often causes changes in the brain years before the symptoms become apparent. This study shows that there may be subtle indications of Alzheimer’s ...

Memory problems have long been considered the primary hallmark of dementia, but a team of researchers is now challenging this view. They argue that changes in sensory perception—from vision to ...