Dementia is a condition that affects memory, thinking, and the ability to perform everyday tasks. As it progresses, it can ...

“People living with dementia and their loved ones will undoubtedly be disappointed by the decision not to fund this new treatment,” said Tara Spires-Jones, director of the Centre for Discovery ...

In the UK, people living with certain types of dementia, can be prescribed treatments to help manage their symptoms. These are known as symptomatic treatments. They include donepezil (part of a family ...

It also inspired numerous academic researchers to explore whether cognitive training really can make people smarter and even lower the risk for dementia. But, as often happens in science ...

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Study compared baseline sleep data with MRI scans taken years later Having more 'poor sleep characteristics' linked to dementia development Daytime sleepiness, early morning wakeups are two ...

As we suspected: Advanced dementia is a terminal illness. To describe the clinical course of patients with advanced dementia, researchers conducted this prospective study of 323 patients (mean age ...

impacting around 75% of all dementia patients and primarily affecting those over the age of 65. The disease disrupts brain function by impairing neuron communication, leading to severe cognitive ...

There are four dementia-specific medications approved in Australia – donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine, and memantine. These available drugs offer symptomatic relief and are neither disease ...

But because the drugs work by degrading the plaque, under FDA rules they cannot be prescribed until the existence of the plaques has been confirmed. Understanding the cause of dementia is also ...