or card games can help create more brain neurons, which can slow the decline of cognition and memory related to dementia. Dementia causes a progressive loss of a person’s cognitive (thinking ...

In 2014, 70 scientists signed a statement that the "consensus of the group is that claims promoting brain games are frequently ... in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment ...

called the Brain Care Score, that they say can help predict people’s risk for developing dementia, stroke and depression later in life. The New York Times has adapted the questionnaire ...

Boosting Brain Protein Levels May Slow Decline from ... impairment through boosting levels of a specific protein in the ... Games, Puzzles and Reading Can Slow Cognitive Decline in the Elderly ...

But there are also certain foods that have a positive impact on brain ageing and can help prevent degenerative diseases like ...

They fight invaders, clear debris and tend neural connections, but sometimes microglia go rogue. Preventing this malfunction ...

Odds are you’ve heard of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic for managing type 2 diabetes and shedding pounds. But have you ever ...

Share on Pinterest Any amount of alcohol raises dementia risk, a new study suggests. Image credit: Olga Shumytskaya/Getty Images. There is no level of alcohol consumption that does not increase ...

Scientists are hoping that access to more than 1.6 million brain scans collected from patients across Scotland could help predict a person’s risk of dementia. A team of 20 researchers from the ...

“Better use of simple brain scans to predict dementia will lead to better understanding of dementia and potentially earlier diagnosis of its causes, which in turn will make development of new ...

Harrison Leece/Unsplash Scientists in the United Kingdom are working to train an artificial intelligence model to recognize signs of dementia in brain scans. They hope their tool will someday ...

A study more closely links obesity to dementia, finding that leptin, a hormone that helps maintain normal body weight, is associated with better signal-transmitting brain white matter in middle-aged ...