BOSTON: Lifting weights is better than brain training exercises for keeping dementia at bay, a study suggests.

University of Sydney researchers found that high intensity weight training improves the mental abilities of older people with mild cognitive impairment, a common precursor

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BOSTON: Women are bearing the brunt of the dementia epidemic claims a new report. Women are far more likely to end up as carers of sufferers than men – suffering physical and emotional stress and job losses in the process.

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PHOENIX: For the first time, researchers have reversed some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-guided focused ultrasound.

MR imaging-guided focused ultrasound has been shown to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which allows

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BOSTON: A new proposed drug to combat Alzheimer’s disease, one of the leading causes of death, is now ready for trials to gauge its effectiveness. The drug known as T-817MA could not only slow but arrest the progress of the disease, researchers suggest.

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