Many people living with dementia reside in long-term care facilities, where the lack of stimulation can result in behaviors such as hitting, screaming, and wandering. Common measures to avoi... Read more
Tailored music sessions could be crucial in transforming the lives of millions of people whose speech is impacted by learning difficulties, strokes, dementia, brain damage and autism, a new... Read more
University of Toronto and Baycrest Rotman Research Institute (RRI) scientists have discovered a potential brain imaging predictor for dementia, which illustrates that changes to the brain’s... Read more
Researchers may have found a way to slow down or prevent memory problems that arise in old age and which can become devastating in patients with dementia. The fresh hope comes from a series... Read more
A breakthrough in machine learning has also brought about a “game changer” for the science of metabolomics – and will hasten the development of diagnostic and predictive te... Read more
Pushing new frontiers in dementia research, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have found a new way to treat dementia by sending electrical impulses to sp... Read more
Cambridge scientists raise prospect of new generation of treatments after finding technique to limit development of biggest cause of dementia Scientists have found a method which could poten... Read more
Scientists are a step closer to developing a pill to cure dementia. A team in Belgium were able to repair diseased brain cells taken from patients with a common form of the condition, for wh... Read more
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in older people, according to the most robust study of its kind ever conducted. An... Read more
Research into disorders such as arthritis is to be helped by new software developed at the University of Manchester which automatically outlines bones – saving thousands of hours of manual w... Read more
Green tea is said to have many putative positive effects on health. Now, researchers at the University of Basel are reporting first evidence that green tea extract enhances the cognitive fun... Read more
A BLOOD TEST THAT can predict with 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer’s disease within three years A BLOOD TEST THAT can predic... Read more
A study which monitored the health habits of 2,235 men over a 35-year period has found that exercise significantly reduces the risk of dementia. Published today in the PLOS One journal by re... Read more
Feeding Fruit Flies with Spermidin Suppresses Age-dependent Memory Impairment Age-induced memory impairment can be suppressed by administration of the natural substance spermidin. This was f... Read more
High doses of statins prevent dementia in older people, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr Tin-Tse Lin from Taiwan. The study of nearly 58,000 patients found tha... Read more
