When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Dementias, like Alzheimer's disease, are characterized by brain cells losing function and dying ...

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A new law in New York will create a statewide registry that will help track and raise awareness of frontotemporal ...

Problems with the brain's waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...

When Liv Heeney was 28, she discovered she had a faulty gene that would probably cause her to develop a rare form of dementia at a young age. Early onset frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has already ...

Individuals diagnosed with cancer appear less likely to later receive a dementia diagnosis, possibly due to biological mechanisms.

The finding comes from data of more than 550,000 adults ages 56 to 72, as well as genetics information from 2.4 million study ...

Dementia is a group of diseases that involve having trouble with memory, thinking, reasoning and other brain functions. It is often associated with "neurodegeneration," meaning processes that destroy ...