There’s growing evidence that people can take steps to keep their brains healthy and reduce the risk of dementia.

New research sheds light how cognitive enrichment from childhood through late adulthood is significantly linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. Here's everything to know ...

Behavioral changes—such as anxiety, depression, irritability, apathy or agitation, collectively known as neuropsychiatric ...

Scientists have long searched for ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. Chief among these ...

New research has found that higher levels of "lifetime cognitive enrichment," or consistently practicing activities that stimulate the mind like reading, writing and playing games, can delay the onset ...

Neuroscientists at King's College London have pinpointed a mechanism behind the increased neural connectivity observed in the ...

Researchers say AI can predict Alzheimer’s disease with close to 93 percent accuracy - More than 7 million Americans are living with the degenerative neurological disorder ...

A scientist looks at hypometabolic and hypoperfusion patterns at the single-subject level from a patient suffering from ...

Medicare beneficiaries 65 years and older who participated in five to six weeks of cognitive speed training with follow-up sessions three years later were less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...

Delirium: Often mistaken for dementia, acute confusion may result from infections, medications or metabolic imbalances and always should be investigated. Eyesight and hearing impairments: Sensory ...

What happens when a promising therapy falls short? Medscape spoke with Jeffrey Cummings, MD, who led the EVOKE trials of the GLP-1 semaglutide for AD, about what the results mean — and what comes next ...

Hope for Alzheimer's prevention emerges as scientists find existing seizure drug may stop disease progression if taken ...