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Kidney disease is often associated with dialysis or transplants, but it also affects memory and concentration, and increases stroke risk.
This little-known brain disorder is currently one of the biggest challenges facing medicine where age-related diseases are concerned.
A new study looked at almost one million married couples and found dementia clustered among couples. Shared lifestyle doesn’t explain everything.
TikTokers are promoting ‘pinky time’, a finger exercise they claim can help keep the brain sharp.
Music has value in dementia care, but re-envisioning its role beyond treatment involves engaging individuals in music experiences that foster self-expression, identity and meaningful interactions.
Only 1 in 4 Americans are meeting the recommended guidelines for exercise. Here are some research-backed ways to keep moving, even when it’s hard.
Blaming behaviour we don’t like on a disease means less accountability, and is bad for those who live with dementia. It’s also often inaccurate.
The gain isn’t huge, but it’s a notable improvement – similar to what people experience when they start exercising more.
A major new study offers a complicated, but hopeful, answer this question.
Whenever you ride a bike or knit a sweater, you’re using your procedural memory. Two cognitive scientists explain what it is and how it works.
Keeping a tiny brain area called locus coeruleus functioning properly may stave off symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and keep the aging brain healthy
Scientists have been quietly building a case that what you eat in midlife shapes your brain decades later. Here’s what the evidence actually shows.
A few simple strategies can help older adults convey their needs to their health care provider.
AI is replacing tasks we have grown reluctant to do ourselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing.
Dementia today occupies the same stigmatized, system-neglected space that cancer did half a century ago. And history shows us that stigma, not simply the absence of cures, delays progress.
Two major trials show the weight-loss drug offers no cognitive benefit to people with early Alzheimer’s, dashing hopes it might protect the brain.
Thirty minutes of daily brain games strengthened neural activity in memory centres, making older brains look ten years younger on scans.
Treating people with dementia as full, thriving human beings requires awareness of stigma and simple communication strategies.
Digital duplicates of our brains could revolutionise mental healthcare.
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