Around one million people are currently living with dementia in the UK, including 29,000 across Kent and over 1,200 in my own ...

A leading dementia expert has expressed optimism that a cure for Alzheimer's disease will be discovered within the next decade. Professor Craig Ritchie also predicts that significant advancements in ...

Emma Austin needs $172,000 therapy every two weeks to slow the progression of Batten disease, which has "no known survivors." ...

A recent study suggests that a drug approved for the treatment of seizures may also help treat Alzheimer's in people who do ...

According to researchers who discovered this new view, the first, early ... of dementia that is similar to both Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease but studies on long-term treatments ...

By Lauryn Higgins - Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Treating vision loss and lowering LDL cholesterol could help reduce a ...

A man who left his job to support his parents through his dad's dementia has described the impact the condition can have on ...

With that in mind, we asked four neurologists what we should all do every day for better brain health. If you have high blood ...

Symptoms get worse over time, and it leads to early death ... childhood dementia. These children are losing their brain cells.” While there isn’t a cure, there is a treatment, Brineura ...

The symptom is distressing for the person experiencing it. “They don’t know where they are, where they live, they don’t feel ...

According to research, the most common cause of death in people with dementia is pneumonia, especially aspiration pneumonia. Experts commonly divide dementia into three stages: early, middle ...

This call is backed by the 2024 update of the Lancet Commission on the prevention, treatment, and care of dementia, which reports that almost half of dementia cases worldwide could be prevented or ...