Dementia affects everyone differently, however it can be helpful to think of dementia progressing in 'three stages'. As dementia progresses, a person will need more help and, at some point, will need ...
It also discusses ways to care for people who may be in the later stages of a progressive brain disease. Dementia disorders damage cells that carry out important functions throughout the brain ...
Motor function appears to improve more in people with Parkinson’s disease dementia taking levodopa (a drug that increases dopamine levels) than in those with DLB. Severe, debilitating symptoms mark ...
Over-60s are 27 percent more likely to develop dementia if they lose just 1 percent of this deep sleep each year, a 2023 study found. Slow-wave sleep is the third stage of a human 90-minute sleep ...