NEW YORK: Does dementia cause someone to steal food off of another’s plate or obsessively eat strange foods and even objects? A team of researchers from the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) aimed to better understand the abnormal eating behaviours commonly associated with the disease. Read More »

DALLAS: Lexus, a black labrador, helps keep Ann Dredge from wandering. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s three years ago.

When Ann Dredge was told she wouldn’t have long to go before she “lost her marbles”, she told the doctor to sod off.

“She said there’s Read More »

NEW YORK: Fish oil and vitamin supplements do not protect against dementia and companies selling them are “preying on people’s fears”, it has been claimed. A panel of experts asked by the watchdog Which? to investigate the science behind supplements found “no robust evidence” linking ingredients Read More »

BOSTON: A study by the University of Aberdeen reports a possible mechanism behind the link between Alzheimer’s disease and type 2 diabetes.

This adds to evidence that drugs currently used to control glucose levels in diabetes may alleviate the symptoms and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Read More »