Nearly half of dementia cases are preventable, but new research shows most awareness campaigns aren't changing habits.

Some of the traditionally associated symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy —a degenerative brain disease most attributed with football and other contact sports — include depression, aggressive ...

But when these changes are more than you’d expect for your age it might be a sign of mild cognitive impairment. So does that ...

Reviewed by Anton Porsteinsson, MD, Director of the University of Rochester Alzheimer’s Disease Care, Research and Education Program (AD-CARE) in New York; and the first William B. and Sheila Konar, ...

Cognitive decline in very old adults has been considered for decades to be an almost inevitable consequence of aging. In ...

Cognitive decline in very old adults has been considered for decades to be an almost inevitable consequence of aging.

A UCL psychiatrist identifies six personality changes that may signal dementia years before memory loss appears. The post A ...

Dr. Marc Rothman visits a lot of patients with dementia and their families. He is a geriatrician who makes house calls in New York City and its suburbs. "Families are often slowly tiptoeing into ...

Jan Donnell thought she understood her mother’s daily struggles with dementia. She’s been caring for Rosalyn Hyek for the ...