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 ...

A recent study determined the lifetime risk of developing dementia is double that of previous estimates. But there’s good news here too. Alzheimer's disease is a common cause of dementia.

Metabolic syndrome was tied to a 24% higher risk of young-onset dementia in a population-based cohort study. Risks of vascular dementia and Alzheimer's also rose in younger people with metabolic ...

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is known to have a direct impact on heart attack and stroke risk — but a new study has revealed its surprising link to brain health. In a large, randomized ...

Bringing down high blood pressure reduces the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment, according to a large study of people in China. Many studies have linked high blood pressure, also known as ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Young-onset dementia, affecting about 7% of dementia cases, is often missed due to its association with older age, atypical symptoms, rarer underlying causes ...

Now a team of Canadian researchers has added another warning to partaking too vigorously in cannabis: dementia. In reaching their conclusions, scientists from institutes across Canada looked at a ...

Research suggests that certain STIs can increase your chances of developing dementia, a memory-robbing disease that affects one in 10 older adults in the US. That’s troubling, considering STIs ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) An 18-year study involving over 24,000 older adults found that those who were divorced or never married had a lower risk of developing dementia compared to ...

The researchers noted that dementia is often considered to be a post-retirement phenomenon, but estimates suggest that 9% of the 35.6 million people worldwide with dementia are under 65 years of ...

Dr Punam leads new season designed to help start conversations between people living with dementia and their loved ones The BBC is launching a special new season across TV, iPlayer and Radio ...