Alcohol consumption: Both excessive drinking and complete abstinence show links to dementia. Cognitive engagement: A lack of learning-oriented activities affects long-term brain health.

Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of brain diseases that cause memory loss and other cognitive decline. More than 100 medical conditions can cause dementia.

The research involved 200 ex-professional rugby players aged 30-61 (median age, 44), all of whom had self-referred with brain health concerns but had no dementia diagnosis at baseline.

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool that can measure how fast a person is aging and predict their future risk of chronic diseases like dementia using a single brain MRI scan.

Two University of Delaware researchers — Curtis Johnson (left), associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Austin Brockmeier (right), assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering ...

Investigators developed the Dunedin Pace of Aging Calculated from NeuroImaging (DunedinPACNI) to estimate an individual’s pace of aging based on brain MRI features such as cortical thickness ...

A new brain scan tool shows how quickly your body and mind are aging. It can spot early signs of diseases like dementia, long before symptoms begin. The scan looks at hidden clues in your brain to ...

The condition is usually caused by cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), which damages the brain's small blood vessels—but researchers don't yet know the exact mechanism linking cSVD to dementia ...

Despite the incredible effort going into treating dementia, treatment becomes less effective the further along the disease is. “Drugs can't resurrect a dying brain,” Hariri said.

One cup of tea was equivalent to approximately 200 ml. They also underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to assess cerebral white matter lesions, hippocampal volume, and total brain volume.