To give yourself the best chance of avoiding dementia, there are certain brain games that help and many that don't. The ones that help, according to recent research, do so because they boost a brain ...

According to the World Health Organization, dementia is the seventh leading cause of death and one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older adults. Could a disease that affects ...

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Britain's youngest dementia patient, whose brain resembled that of a 70-year-old, has died aged 24. Andre Yarham received his diagnosis of early-onset dementia after relatives observed that his ...

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The timing of your sleep patterns could be linked to increased dementia risk, according to a new study. Each person's circadian rhythm, often defined as the body's internal 24-hour clock, keeps the ...

As individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD) move from the mild cognitive impairment stage to moderate and severe dementia, ...

Despite years of clinical guidelines warning against the practice, one in four Medicare beneficiaries with dementia is ...

A 24‑year‑old man has died from a rare form of dementia—leaving his brain to medical researchers in the hope of advancing future treatments. Andre Yarham from Norfolk, England was diagnosed with ...

A 24-year-old man with dementia who died over Christmas has left his brain to science. Andre Yarham, who lived in Dereham, Norfolk, was just 22 when he went to the doctors after his mother Samantha ...