A study tracking women for more than two decades adds to growing evidence that when menopause hormone therapy is started may influence dementia risk later in life.

Can our homes help detect brain changes? New research shows how digital sensing reveals subtle shifts in movement and cognition in everyday life, and can track disease progression.

One of the more encouraging findings out of the Rush study is that although the benefits were greater when someone seeks out ...

Hearing loss and dementia affect millions of people worldwide. But headlines describing hearing loss as the "leading midlife risk factor" for dementia can be misleading. They often oversimplify ...

The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...

Forty-Hz auditory stimulation increased amyloid clearance markers in aged primates and produced lasting effects, supporting its potential as a non-invasive Alzheimer’s therapy. Scientists at the Kunmi ...

This isn’t your grandma’s nursing home. The nation’s first “dementia village” is coming to Wisconsin, a $40 million undertaking aimed at helping residents preserve community, connection and quality of ...

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Can Alzheimer’s disease be slowed by flickering lights and sound? That is the question that drives Annabelle Singer, an associate professor and biomedical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Lifelong intellectual activity, such as reading or museum visits, was tied to lower Alzheimer's dementia risk in older adults. Adults with the highest level of cognitive enrichment developed mild ...

Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health followed thousands of adults over time and looked at their coffee consumption patterns alongside rates of cognitive decline and dementia ...