Dementia is an umbrella term for cognitive decline, while Alzheimer's is the most prevalent cause. Recognizing the ...

When we think of autism, we might think about younger people. Autism wasn’t formally recognized as a diagnosable condition ...

A new study from UCLA Health has uncovered how inflammation in brain blood vessels exacerbates damage in vascular dementia and demonstrated that targeting this ...

Attorneys for Ralph Menzies are requesting another review to determine whether the 67-year-old death row inmate with dementia ...

Cognitive decline related to stroke is usually called vascular dementia or vascular cognitive impairment to distinguish it from other types of dementia. In the United States, it is the second most ...

Regular use of strong opioids may significantly increase risk for all-cause and vascular dementia plus reduced brain volume and cognitive performance.

A new study from the Keck School of Medicine of USC has tested a biomarker linked to vascular dementia across four separate groups and proposed an explanation for how cognitive impairment arises.

An experimental method, which can predict the aging rate of both brain and body, may detect who should implement lifestyle ...

One MRI scan can now reveal how quickly you're aging. Faster aging links to poor memory, chronic illness, and earlier death. The tool gives a warning decades before symptoms begin.

A new tool developed by researchers can estimate how fast someone is aging by analyzing a single MRI brain scan, predicting chronic disease risk and dementia years before symptoms appear.

Every year, over 20,000 people in Sweden develop some form of dementia, with Alzheimer’s disease accounting for approximately two-thirds of cases. However, the speed at which the brain ages is ...

Overall, the study found that 45% of all brain donors showed evidence of vascular brain injury, establishing a baseline rate across the entire sample of 740 people.