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Dementia
Dementia isn't a specific disease. Instead, dementia describes a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily functioning. Though dementia generally involves memory loss, memory loss has different causes. So memory loss alone doesn't mean you have dementia. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of a progressive dementia in older adults, but there are a number of causes of dementia. Depending on the cause, some dementia symptoms can be reversed.
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SEP 18, 2015Neuroscience
Watertown, Minnesota, 50 miles west of Milwaukee, is attempting to make life easier for those with dementia. The city an ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 16, 2015Neuroscience
An Australian study published in the journal BMC Medicine and reported in Bioscience Technology claims that people ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 11, 2015Neuroscience
Direct tissue transplantation can transmit the “seeds” of Alzheimer’s and related brain diseases, acco ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 11, 2015Plants & Animals
It’s long been known in the medical community that gardening can have a positive effect on patients dealing with d ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 08, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany’s Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim an ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 08, 2015Neuroscience
People who have type 2 diabetes could be at greater risk for the buildup of tangles of protein in their spinal fluid, ir ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 30, 2015Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 26, 2015Neuroscience
Health researchers claim that there are now almost 47 million people living with dementia around the world, an increase ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 25, 2015Neuroscience
More than 5,000 scientists specializing in dementia met at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) J ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 24, 2015Neuroscience
An Alzheimer's disease diagnosis is always a sad story. It is that much more so for people in their 30s, just starting t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 23, 2015Neuroscience
It's simple, it's noninvasive and it's accurate, but it's early too. Nonetheless, a saliva test that detects Alzheimer's ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 11, 2015Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School researchers believe that type 2 diabetes might reduce the ability to regulate blood flow, which, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Neuroscience
"Accelerated and persistent declines in memory and thinking ability" lasting as long as 6 years after a stroke "at a rat ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 03, 2015Neuroscience
Are the very systems that are supposed to dispose of cellular waste making it worse? A study at Yale University in New H ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 29, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Dementia is a generic term used to describe a wide range of diseases related to brain malfunction that leads to memory l ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 03, 2015Neuroscience
Poor sleep may cause the beta-amyloid protein to trigger Alzheimer's disease by attacking the brain's long-term memory, ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 21, 2015Health & Medicine
"Run! Duck! Cover... Oops, what was I doing again?" If you are an avid action gamer you may want to think twice about sp ...Written By: Kareem HeslopMAY 19, 2015Neuroscience
Once neurons die or become damaged, they typically cannot be reproduced by the body. This is why aging is the greatest r ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 13, 2015Neuroscience
While the consequences of brain damage can be dire, one kind of language loss may not necessarily affect another. Specif ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 06, 2015Neuroscience
Americans love football, but recent stories about the intense and cumulative effect of trauma on the brain has caused re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 05, 2015Neuroscience
Women "of a certain age" worry that fuzzy thinking - the inability to remember or focus - may be a symptom of Alzheimer' ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 29, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers pursuing a fresh approach for staving off Alzheimer's disease may have hit on something.
They hav ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 27, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers have identified how proteins that play a key role in Alzheimer's disease are linked in a pathway that contro ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 26, 2015Neuroscience
Long-term exposure to the fine particles associated with air pollution can cause damage to brain structures and impair c ...Written By: Will Hector
SEP 18, 2015
Neuroscience
Watertown, Minnesota, 50 miles west of Milwaukee, is attempting to make life easier for those with dementia. The city an
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Neuroscience
An Australian study published in the journal BMC Medicine and reported in Bioscience Technology claims that people
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 11, 2015
Neuroscience
Direct tissue transplantation can transmit the “seeds” of Alzheimer’s and related brain diseases, acco
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 11, 2015
Plants & Animals
It’s long been known in the medical community that gardening can have a positive effect on patients dealing with d
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 08, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany’s Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim an
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 08, 2015
Neuroscience
People who have type 2 diabetes could be at greater risk for the buildup of tangles of protein in their spinal fluid, ir
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 26, 2015
Neuroscience
Health researchers claim that there are now almost 47 million people living with dementia around the world, an increase
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 25, 2015
Neuroscience
More than 5,000 scientists specializing in dementia met at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) J
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 24, 2015
Neuroscience
An Alzheimer's disease diagnosis is always a sad story. It is that much more so for people in their 30s, just starting t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 23, 2015
Neuroscience
It's simple, it's noninvasive and it's accurate, but it's early too. Nonetheless, a saliva test that detects Alzheimer's
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 11, 2015
Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School researchers believe that type 2 diabetes might reduce the ability to regulate blood flow, which,
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Neuroscience
"Accelerated and persistent declines in memory and thinking ability" lasting as long as 6 years after a stroke "at a rat
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 03, 2015
Neuroscience
Are the very systems that are supposed to dispose of cellular waste making it worse? A study at Yale University in New H
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 29, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Dementia is a generic term used to describe a wide range of diseases related to brain malfunction that leads to memory l
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 03, 2015
Neuroscience
Poor sleep may cause the beta-amyloid protein to trigger Alzheimer's disease by attacking the brain's long-term memory,
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
"Run! Duck! Cover... Oops, what was I doing again?" If you are an avid action gamer you may want to think twice about sp
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop
MAY 19, 2015
Neuroscience
Once neurons die or become damaged, they typically cannot be reproduced by the body. This is why aging is the greatest r
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 13, 2015
Neuroscience
While the consequences of brain damage can be dire, one kind of language loss may not necessarily affect another. Specif
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 06, 2015
Neuroscience
Americans love football, but recent stories about the intense and cumulative effect of trauma on the brain has caused re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 05, 2015
Neuroscience
Women "of a certain age" worry that fuzzy thinking - the inability to remember or focus - may be a symptom of Alzheimer'
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 29, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers pursuing a fresh approach for staving off Alzheimer's disease may have hit on something.
They hav ...
They hav ...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers have identified how proteins that play a key role in Alzheimer's disease are linked in a pathway that contro
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 26, 2015
Neuroscience
Long-term exposure to the fine particles associated with air pollution can cause damage to brain structures and impair c
...
Written By:
Will Hector