LOS ANGELES: A university in Singapore is focusing on humanoids to help care for dementia patients.

Humanoid Nadine is both modeled and named after creator Nadia Thalmann, a computer graphics scientist who simultaneously serves as a Visiting Professor and Director of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University’s Institute Read More »

PHILADELPHIA: Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified a novel mechanism that could be used to protect the brain from damage due to stroke and a variety of neurodegenerative conditions, including sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease.

Neena Singh, Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type of language dementia, primary progressive aphasia (PPA), provides important new insights into the beginning stages of this disease — which results in language loss — when it is caused Read More »

MIAMI: The needs of people with late stage dementia are not being met, new research* has found.

The findings, funded by Marie Curie and carried out by the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department at University College London, is based on in-depth interviews with a Read More »