DALLAS: Australian researchers have successfully reduced the use of antipsychotics to treat behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia patients in 23 long-term care facilities in New South Wales.

In the Halting Antipsychotic use in Long Term care (HALT) Project, regular antipsychotic medication was eliminated from Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Frontotemporal dementia presents a thorny thicket for researchers to pick their way through. Symptoms range from sluggish apathy to obsessive compulsion, and numerous genetic mutations and neuropathologies can underlie each person’s disease.

Variation in behavioural symptoms may be explained by degeneration of specific neural Read More »

NEW YORK: A diagnosis of dementia may have a “silver lining” as those who know their fate value life more highly, an Alzheimer’s conference has been told.

A study of patients with early dementia or mild cognitive impairment found that more than half of patients said Read More »

SAN FRANCISCO: A pill taken twice a day has stalled deterioration of the brain in Alzheimer’s patients for the first time.

Scientists announced that the mental decline of participants in a final-stage trial had been halted for 18 months, raising hopes that an effective treatment for Read More »