dementia

People who occasionally forget an appointment or a friend's name may have a loss of brain volume, even though they don't have memory deficits on regular tests of memory or dementia, according to new study.

All drugs used to treat psychosis are linked to an increased risk of stroke, and dementia sufferers are at double the risk, according to a study published on bmj.com today.

New research suggests that a select group of compounds that interact with a protein in the brain might be used in the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders.

Scientists have discovered that these compounds interact in three specific ways with the tau protein, which is the subject of a growing body of research into the causes and progression of dementia.

Women over 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia than men of the same age, according UC Irvine researchers involved with the 90+ Study, one of the nation's largest studies of dementia and other health factors in the fastest-growing age demographic.

Children with lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to new research in Neurology.

Older adults with dementia who receive short-term courses of antipsychotic medications are more likely to be hospitalized or die than those who do not take the drugs, according to a new article.

When it comes to remembering things, new research shows men are more likely than women to have mild cognitive impairment, the transition stage before dementia.

Wine may protect against dementia. A study looked at 1,458 women over a long period of time. After 34 years, 162 women had been diagnosed with dementia.

The results show that among those women who reported that they drank wine a considerably lower proportion suffered from dementia, whereas this correlation was not found among those who had reported that they regularly drank beer or liquor.

People who have had depression are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than people who have never had depression, according to a new study.

The study involved 486 people age 60 to 90 who had no dementia.

Mild cognitive impairment -- a state between the normal forgetfulness that comes with aging and the more pronounced thinking deficits of dementia -- often progresses to Alzheimer's disease, but some people remain stable and others recover.

New technology is improving the ability to determine who might fall into each category.