America is approaching one of the greatest public health challenges of this century, yet dementia still receives far less ...

Karyn Frick likes to think big. In college, she spent the summer after her junior year studying the neurobiology of memory in ...

These healthy habits benefit your whole body—including your brain—and may help contribute to lower dementia risk over time.

Impaired memory and thinking are the most common symptoms associated with a dementia diagnosis. But noncognitive symptoms can ...

Zombie, or senescent, cells accumulate in our body with age, when we become less able to clear them. But a study in mice ...

A newly identified protein pathway may link blood-brain barrier deterioration to age-related cognitive decline.

As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

Ashley Wong, PharmD, is an experienced pharmacist and medical writer who translates medical and drug information into easily digestible language. Effect on memory: Benzodiazepines are known to affect ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - We use our phones for just about everything, and now researchers say they may also help detect early memory loss. A new study with about 200 older adults found that simple ...

One of the major cognitive changes that happens as we age is difficulty recounting details of past experiences. But two recent studies suggest that older adults’ memories may be richer than previously ...

People with Alzheimer’s disease who took the common supplement glucosamine were 25% more likely to die within five years than those who didn’t. That’s the key finding of a new study that my colleagues ...