Playing video games may boost your cognitive abilities and exercise can play a role in improving your mental health, but not ...

A new study has suggested that eating a handful of nuts each day can lower a person's risk of developing dementia - with the ...

Aerobic fitness reduced the risk of developing dementia for middle-aged adults, while healthy eating habits appeared to have ...

"The results fundamentally alter scientists' understanding of how Alzheimer's harms the brain," researchers say.

Recent research is looking at the way in which cardiovascular issue may play into the development of dementia, with one study suggesting that heparin, a common anticoagulant, may help delay ...

By obtaining high-resolution images of Alzheimer’s disease-affected brain cells as the condition progresses, researchers have identified the specific neurons that are damaged. The information the ...

Alzheimer's disease may damage the brain in two distinct phases, based on new research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) using sophisticated brain mapping tools.

Alzheimer's disease may damage the brain in two distinct phases, based on new research using sophisticated brain mapping tools. According to researchers who discovered this new view, the first, early ...

Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that shares traits with both Parkinson's disease and ...