Playing computer-based physical therapy games can help people with Parkinson’s disease improve their gait and balance, according to a new pilot study led by the UCSF School of Nursing and…

A tiny piece of a critical receptor that fuels the brain and without which sentient beings cannot live has been discovered by University at…

An experimental drug being developed by Roche Holding AG removed amyloid plaques from the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients in a small early-stage study, according to data published in the…

In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high…

People with diabetes are at increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke at an early age. But that’s not the only worry: Diabetes appears to dramatically increase a person’s risk…

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School have found that a common cancer protein leads a second, totally different life in normal adult brain cells: It helps regulates…

Humour therapy is as effective as widely used antipsychotic drugs in managing agitation in patients with dementia – and avoids serious drug side effects, a new study…

Insulin inhaled via a nasal spray may slow decline in cognitive function in people with Alzheimer’s disease and amnestic mild cognitive impairment, a condition thought to precede Alzheimer’s, according to…

Scientists at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, and Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen in Bonn succeeded for the first time in demonstrating that even in merely subjective…

About 28 million of the nearly 36 million people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias have not been diagnosed, robbing them from the benefit of treatments and the chance…

The World Alzheimer’s Report 2011 ‘The Benefits of Early Diagnosis and Intervention’, released today by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), shows that there are interventions that are…

People with high cholesterol may have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in the September 13, 2011, issue of Neurology®, the medical…

Less than two months after publishing findings about a new gene linked to late-onset Parkinson’s disease, the same team of scientists at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal…

A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has identified how the lack of a brain chemical known as dopamine can rewire the interaction between two groups of…

Many older adults lose their independence as their health declines and they are compelled to move into assisted care facilities. Researchers at…

Who hasn’t forgotten someone’s name, misplaced their glasses or walked into a room and not remembered why they entered? Normal age-related memory decline affects more than half…

About 200,000 Americans are estimated to have early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which means the disease is found before age 65. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia, and it a causes significant…

Scientists have for the first time generated stem cells from one of the most rapidly progressing forms of Parkinson’s disease.

The development will help research into the condition as…

Cognitive abilities include perception, memory, judgment, perceptual speed, spatial manipulation and reasoning. Both cross sectional and longitudinal studies have shown that different cognitive abilities have different developmental trajectories across the lifespan, and…

Q: Can any medicines - particularly antibiotics - cause dementia? Is dementia ever curable?

A: Dementia is a loss of cognitive (mental) ability which may affect the ability to solve…

1.  Memory Loss:  Forgetting recently learned information is one of the most common early warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease.  Do you forget things more often or find yourself unable to recall information later? …

Regular exercise could help prevent brain damage associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, according to research published this month in Elsevier’s journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

“Exercise…

A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory…

Patients suffering REM sleep behaviour disorders dream nightmares in which they are attacked and pursued, with the particularity that they express them by screaming, crying, punching…

As a boy, Gary Reiswig would take his grandfather by the hand and guide him on walks around the family farm in western Oklahoma.

At 5,…