A new scientific breakthrough in the field of Alzheimer’s research is raising hopes that the cruel, crippling and fatal brain ...

A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a ...

Symptoms of dementia can start to develop in the brain decades before they begin to disrupt daily life. However, scientists ...

Increasing the levels of a particular phospholipid in the membranes of brain cells may offer a promising new way to improve blood circulation in the brain and support healthier brain activity. A poten ...

Prof Brennan uses a surgical drill to remove a flap of skull. The exposed brain is pink, flushed with blood, and gently ...

The shingles vaccine may offer a protective effect against developing dementia, as well as “therapeutic potential” for those ...

There is currently no cure for dementia, which afflicts an estimated 57 million people globally, and affects hundreds of millions more who are the family, friends, and caretakers of people with ...

A terrible irony of dementia — which can result in the inability to recognize people and places — is that the condition ...

Engineered molecules carrying Alzheimer’s therapies to the brain. Florescent dye highlighting dementia-inducing proteins. Brain cells growing in laboratory dishes. It’s all part of a wave of ...

It would have been normal for Sandra Day O'Connor, at the age of 88, to have some age-related cognitive decline, but her diagnosis of dementia, announced in 2018, meant something different. As a ...