PHOENIX: Medications commonly used to treat dementia could result in harmful weight loss, according to UC San Francisco researchers, and clinicians need to account for this risk when prescribing these drugs to older adults, they said.

“This is very relevant to patient care because unintentional Read More »

BOSTON: Eating a group of specific foods known as the MIND diet may slow cognitive decline among older adults, according to researchers at Rush University Medical Center.

The MIND diet was designed by combining research looking at the best aspects of diet research in dementia. Read More »

BOSTON: People are getting dementia earlier, with those in their late 40s now regularly diagnosed with the disease.

Two decades ago, early-onset dementia was usually diagnosed in patients in their late 60s – but it is now often striking those who are even younger, a Read More »

LOS ANGELES: Millions of people around the world could ward off dementia by heeding the advice of previous health studies rather than waiting for future discoveries, according to one of Australia’s leading dementia researchers.

Professor Henry Brodaty, the co-director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Aging Read More »