The 84 research participant brain donors were from UW Medicine Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and the Kaiser ...

While you can’t count on a spoonful of olive oil to reduce your risk for dementia-related mortality, including it in your ...

An analysis of brains at various stages of Alzheimer's found that neurons called inhibitory neurons are the first to be affected by the disease.

Understand Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia, accounting for approximately 80% of ...

Brain-training games remain unproven, but research shows what sorts of activities do benefit cognitive functioning.

New research highlights middle age as a pivotal period for brain health, with significant changes in how cells remove damaged mitochondria. Defects in this recycling process have been linked to ...

Some 2.3 million of U.S. adults over 65—more than 4%—have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain ...

It’s official: frequent exercise gives you protection from dementia. After following more than 10,000 participants in their ...

Here’s what the science says about how much exercise you need to do each week to stave off dementia – from sprinting and ...

Dementia is a progressive condition that affects brain function, leading to a decline in cognitive skills such as memory and reasoning, as well as speech and emotions over time. Research shows ...