There are also ways to decrease your risk, experts say. Deaths from dementia have tripled in just 21 years, according to a new study published in The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders.

Some medications could have the unintended benefit of reducing dementia risk. That’s according to a recent study by the universities of Cambridge and Exeter, where researchers evaluated several ...

Susan Schneider Williams, the widow of late comic and actor Robin Williams, once called Lewy body dementia "the terrorist inside my husband's brain." While it afflicts more than one million ...

By Paula Span Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed ...

Dementia is a growing global concern, but the good news is that we are making substantial progress in the fight against this disease. You wouldn’t know it from the prevailing paradigm: In the U ...

Most people know that exercising, eating healthy and keeping your mind active can lower your risk of dementia. But with the expected number of Americans living with dementia projected to increase ...

Worried about memory loss? You’re not alone. Dementia can be scary. Understanding risk factors helps us take better steps to ...

Around 57 million people worldwide have dementia. While most cases of dementia are diagnosed in older adults, about 7 per cent of cases occur in people under 65. This number may be even higher as ...

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