Depression in older adults may sometimes signal the early stages of Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia. Researchers found that depression often appears years before diagnosis and remains ...

A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) has discovered that early and sustained ...

Intellectual enrichment throughout the lifespan tied to higher cognitive function ...

“We showed that the complex actually induces blood-brain barrier leakage, when the proteins alone did not,” Simões-Pires says. “Disruption of the blood-brain barrier allows for blood proteins to cross ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding how Alzheimer’s disease develops, and a decades-old drug could be the ...

I am a volunteer advocate for the CT Association and am writing to notify the public of a critical legislative bill requesting Medicare coverage for new blood tests to diagnose early indicators of ...

A study finds that people who stay mentally active through reading, writing, and learning may have a lower risk of ...

Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers ...

A grandmother with early-stage dementia walked into her bank, closed every account, and handed over a cashier's check for ...

While physicians and scientists have long known that Alzheimer's disease involves the buildup of toxic protein fragments in ...

In the recreation room at Eskaton Village in Carmichael, Bonnie Dale, one of the residents, is trying on a virtual reality (VR) headset.

Scientists reveal how many steps you need to walk daily to reduce Alzheimer’s risk - A new 14-year study is one of the first to explore the relationship between activity and key markers of the disease ...