Psychological distress is linked to poorer later-life cognitive performance and higher dementia risk, though not to cognitive decline over time.

Preventing dementia begins in midlife, if not earlier. Dr. Brooke Allen, a board-certified neurologist in the Roaring Fork Valley, is welcoming community members to a conversation about how to reduce ...

More than 6 million Americans are living with dementia, which affects memory, communication, reasoning and planning.

New evidence links viral infections to dementia risk, suggesting vaccines and antiviral therapies may offer preventive ...

So-called "brain training" games may help guard against Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, a new study suggests. The research found some older adults who completed specific cognitive ...

A daily habit as common as a bacon sandwich at breakfast may carry outsized consequences for the roughly one in four adults ...

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The latest on dementia, from recent medical advancements in diagnosis, treatment and prevention and how family members can ...

Does hearing surgery prevent dementia? New research shows that treating eardrum perforations and cholesteatoma reduces the ...

Dust off the gratitude journal: study reveals that this personality trait could potentially lower your risk of developing ...

A new study published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the official peer-reviewed publication of the American Academy ...