WASHINGTON, D.C.: A new study links worsening depression with the development of dementia.

Dutch researchers found that steadily worsening symptoms of depression pointed to a later diagnosis of dementia for some seniors. Scientists at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands tracked over Read More »

NEW YORK: Eating a meal of seafood or other foods containing omega-3 fatty acids at least once a week may protect against age-related memory loss and thinking problems in older people, according to a team of researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Wageningen University in Read More »

COLUMBIA: In a study of 100 seniors ages 80 to 99, Columbia University Medical Center researchers found that those wearing hearing aids performed better on standard cognition tests than those who did not. That was true even when the hearing-aid wearers had more acute hearing Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C.: This condition is little-known, even among the medical profession, but the silent hallucinations triggered by the brain ‘filling in the blanks’ in diminished eyesight can range from disturbing to terrifying. Fearing that they are part of dementia, far too few sufferers confide in anyone Read More »