A new study published in the journal Cortex sheds light on how brain network organization differs in healthy aging and semantic dementia. Researchers found that older adults experience changes in the ...

Episodic memory allows individuals to recall specific past events, blending sensory, emotional, and contextual information.

PEOPLE often think of Alzheimer’s when they think of dementia. It’s the most common type of dementia, accounting for 60-80 ...

Marie added: "Then they told me it wasn't menopause, dementia." Marie was diagnosed with semantic dementia four years ago, a rare form of the condition that causes a loss of semantic memory. It starts ...

It is often associated with other forms of dementia, including Semantic Dementia (SD), which specifically impacts the understanding of words and concepts. Recent research has focused on improving ...

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Marie, a school teacher, was diagnosed with dementia four years ago after initially believing her hot flashes were a sign of the menopause rather than the condition ...

Semantic memory is someone’s long-term store of knowledge: It’s composed of pieces of information such as facts learned in school, what concepts mean and how they are related, or the ...

The researchers now plan to build on their model to explore how episodic memories could become converted to cortical "semantic" memory, or the memory of facts dissociated from the specific context ...