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Dr. Nathaniel Chin explains why repeat cognitive testing can reveal meaningful changes over time that a single score may miss ...

The symptoms of FTD overlap with many other psychiatric and neurological conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality, and Parkinson’s disease. Since the symptoms start young, ...

Deborah Kan is the founder and CEO of Being Patient, a journalism-driven news platform on Alzheimer’s, dementia, and brain ...

The brain is busy the entire time. The trouble, she told me, is that we discount it. The effect of being with other people is “always minimized in our head,” she said, because it does not come in a ...

It often reflects an attempt to fulfill a former obligation, such as going to work, or to find a place that feels like home. Secure the home with door alarms or locks and helpful signage, provide ...

Because dementia damages the brain regions that handle memory, language, emotion, perception and impulse control. Behaviors such as agitation, wandering and accusations are not intentional acts — they ...

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Advanced dementia is the final stage, marked by a need for near-total assistance with all aspects of daily life: limited mobility, severely impaired communication and memory, and loss of appetite with ...

Researchers want to test whether people at-risk of developing Parkinson’s have misfolded proteins that could be detected on a biopsy. It isn’t clear yet whether this research will pan out.

While many people who develop Parkinson’s experience trouble swallowing, constipation, and nausea years before their diagnosis – these symptoms are common across many diseases and aren’t specific ...