Reena Sethi and Ihita Bolisetty launched a VCU chapter of the Brain Exercise Initiative, which partners with a local assisted-living facility to work with residents.

May 22, 2025 — Worldwide, more than 55 million people suffer from dementia caused by Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and other conditions that destroy cells in the brain and nervous system. While there ...

Dementia rates are increasing more rapidly in China than almost anywhere else in the world, with cases more than quadrupling in the country over the past few decades. Daoying Geng at Fudan ...

Researchers in Edinburgh have made a significant breakthrough by studying living human brain tissue to understand how dementia unfolds. The study revealed how amyloid beta, a toxic protein linked ...

Frequent use of a specific two-word phrase could be an indicator of dementia, signalling significant cognitive decline, experts have warned. Dementia is a condition characterised by a cluster of ...

When J.L. Gallese’s father entered the later stages of dementia, music became a regular element of his care. There were a few LPs of old TV show theme songs that he loved, and they played on ...

Starr County has emerged as a national hot spot — not for tourism or industry, but for having one of the highest rates of dementia in the country. Roughly one in five seniors here have dementia ...

The new research, published on Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, calls for implementing immediate and effective interventions to prevent dementia in the country as early as possible. Alzheimer ...

The study also projected trends for the next 15 years using statistical models, suggesting that dementia rates will continue to rise, especially in China, unless more effective interventions are ...