Each year, the Alzheimer's Association hosts an Alzheimer's Advocacy Day in Raleigh, N.C., a time for caregivers and ...

Everything we do changes our brain in some way. The very act of reading this sentence will (very) subtly alter your brain chemistry. However, drugs of abuse such as cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy set ...

As people in the Western world live longer it's likely that the numbers of people with some form of dementia will increase. Since we're not sure of the cause it's hard to know how to prevent it.

For most of us our risk of dementia is made up of our age, genes, lifestyle, health and environment. Some of these risk factors like our age and genes, we can’t change. However research suggests that ...

A new study on almost 1million Brits over the age of 55 suggests some types of medication taken regularly prescribed to ...