A common cognitive disorder with symptoms that mimic Alzheimer's is often mistaken for the disease. Researchers are calling ...

Actress Pauline Quirke, 65, famous for her role as Sharon Theodopolopodous on long-running sitcom Birds Of A Feather, has ...

The lack of proper blood flow deprives brain cells of oxygen and nutrients, leading to damage or death of brain tissue.

But dementia isn’t a normal part of aging — it’s a progressive loss of memory, language and other cognitive functions. Simply ...

Kulick: A support group can help those caring for people with dementia to not feel isolated and lost. A new group in Monroe ...

The finding has implications for all of us, write Harvard physician-researchers Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Actress Pauline Quirke's dementia diagnosis was announced by her husband Paul Sheen today, January 21. The Birds of Feather ...

About a million Americans a year are expected to develop dementia by 2060, roughly double today’s toll, researchers reported ...

New research suggests that Americans' risk for developing dementia over a lifetime may be higher than previously thought. A ...

Unlike subcutaneous fat that lies just beneath our skin, visceral fat accumulates around our internal abdominal organs, ...

When someone with dementia loses their ability to have empathy, caring for them can become isolating and fraught, research ...