Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo in Japan, also known as Science Tokyo, have taken a fresh look at a long ...

The earliest known case of dementia in UK may help scientists and doctors alike better understand the awful disease.

Dementia affects over 57 million people worldwide—and this number is only projected to grow. By 2030, 78 million people are estimated to have dementia. By 2050, it's projected that number will reach ...

Smoking, obesity and high blood sugar are risk factors for dementia. Unless countries act swiftly to address dementia risk factors, global cases of dementia may triple by 2050, according to a new ...

Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study. Researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute in Canada and the University of ...

Objective Physical activity (PA) is associated with a decreased incidence of dementia, but much of the evidence comes from short follow-ups prone to reverse causation. This meta-analysis investigates ...

People could be at a higher risk for dementia if more than 20% of their daily caloric intake is ultra-processed foods, a new study found. The part of the brain involved in processing information and ...

Dementia impacts approximately 6.5 million Americans — and those numbers are predicted to go up. The CDC estimates that by 2060, 14 million Americans may be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the most common ...

Overall, these results suggest frequent nightmares may be one of the earliest signs of dementia, which can precede the ...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, a class of diabetes drugs also known as gliflozins, could lower the risk for dementia and Parkinson’s disease, a new study finds. The report was ...

Alarming insights from a scientific study have health officials cautioning that certain commonly prescribed drugs might escalate the risk of dementia. Researchers discovered a potential hazard with ...