According to Alzheimer’s Research UK, dementia has been the leading cause of death in women since 2011, with the trend ...

Alzheimer's Research has discovered 75,393 people died from dementia in 2023, up on 2022, amid warnings the number will ...

The UK's leading cause of death has been revealed in new analysis, which has warned that the "crisis will only worsen" unless ...

This is the area of the brain responsible for our memory. So, when the hippocampus becomes damaged in Alzheimer’s disease this leads to memory problems, one of the first dementia symptoms people ...

Almost one million people in the UK are living with dementia today. And although new drugs are on the horizon, there are currently no treatments available in the NHS that can slow or stop the diseases ...

Charlie Starmer-Smith Jnr shines light on father's dementia ...

31, 2024 — A drug commonly used to treat glaucoma has been shown in zebrafish and mice to protect against the build-up in the brain of the protein tau, which causes various forms of dementia and ...

“People are scared about dementia,” says Professor Matthew Kiernan, CEO of Neuroscience Research Australia, of the cognitive and functional decline that is the leading cause of death for ...

Evidence shows that excessive alcohol consumption increases a person’s risk of developing dementia. Drinking alcohol in moderation has not been conclusively linked to an increased risk of dementia. If ...

which makes it tough to say that certain behaviors or habits actually cause dementia. Still, he says many of the predictors from the study seem correct. “From a practical perspective ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...

Once the patient is stabilized with pharmacologic treatments she/he should be further evaluated to determine the cause of clinical presentation: dementia, mania, substance abuse, depression ...