Dementia

Dementia Facts

Dementia facts* *Dementia facts medical author: Charles P. Davis, MD, PhD Dementia is a term that describes a collection of symptoms that include decreased intellectual functioning that interfer...

Personal Stories: Peter - Living with Dementia

Peter Van Spyk had Alzheimer’s for 10 years before he was diagnosed. In that time, the family business failed and his relationship with his wife Pat became very strained. Pat and Peter describe in ...

Getting Gout Could Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

It turns out that coming down with a common form of inflammatory arthritis could help protect your brain from Alzheimer’s disease. While gout is a painful and debilitating disease on its own, few w...

Michael J. Fox Foundation Announces New Funding for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Research

The Michael J. Fox Foundation partnered with the Alzheimer’s Association to fund new research studying similarities across Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. In September the program awarded $1.3 million...

Dementia Patients Twice as Likely to Suffer Avoidable Complications in Hospital, New UC Study Finds

Hospital patients with dementia are more than twice as likely to experience preventable complications such as pressure ulcers and pneumonia, according to a new study by the University of Canberra. ...

Alzheimer’s Choir Taps Into Music’s Power to Circumvent Memory Loss

For two hours every Wednesday morning, Tom and Julie Allen feel like a couple again. That’s when they rehearse with the Giving Voice Chorus, a choir that’s open to Alzheimer’s patients and their c...

Onion Extract May Lower Blood Sugar, Cholesterol in Diabetes

Allium cepa, an extract found in onion bulbs, may be able to lower high blood glucose as well as total cholesterol levels in diabetes, according to a study presented at The Endocrine Society meetin...

Can Ultrasound Fight Alzheimer's? Mice Study Hints at New Weapon

Scientists believe they may have found a new weapon in the fight against Alzheimer's disease -- not in the form of a drug but in focused beams of ultrasound. While the approach has only been teste...

New Drug Might Help Prevent, Slow or Reverse Alzheimer's

Currently, an estimated 44 million people are affected by dementia worldwide, and an estimated 7.7 million new cases are diagnosed each year. The prevalence doubles every five years beyond the age ...

Novel Switch for Autoimmune Diseases Could Play Role In MS

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists may have discovered a critical immune system switch that could affect genes involved in autoimmune diseases. The ground-breaking work, published in th...