New research highlights middle age as a pivotal period for brain health, with significant changes in how cells remove damaged mitochondria. Defects in this recycling process have been linked to ...

Dementia turns life upside down and changes it forever. When pathological processes start, you begin to feel, speak, and act differently. It's a sign that the brain is starting to disintegrate.

Researchers led by the University of California, Irvine are the first to reveal how two neural circuits located in the ...

The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry were seen as a sweep for artificial intelligence (AI) tools which, at their ...

However research suggests that almost half (45%) of dementia cases are linked to risk factors we have some control over. This means that we can reduce our risk of getting it by taking steps to protect ...

A combination of two “active” therapies may help slow cognitive decline in older adults, especially those with a type of severe depression and a genetic risk of Alzheimer's, a study indicates.

Unfortunately, symptomatic treatments cannot stop the diseases that cause dementia from progressing, so people will continue to get worse over time. This is because these drugs cannot fix damage to ...

The researchers found brain functions after Long COVID are strikingly similar to those with Alzheimer's and other forms of ...

Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, is usually progressive and can eventually be fatal.

"This work brings us another step closer to better understanding how these proteins spread in brain tissue of Alzheimer's disease ... an initial amyloid beta fibril has been created (see the diagram ...

Dementia, a cognitive disorder affecting memory, reasoning, and social abilities, is currently experienced by an estimated 50 ...

Communicating with someone who is living with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia can sometimes be a challenge. That's because one of the hallmark symptoms of dementia, along with memory loss, is ...