Secondly, it turns out that “at least” one in 10 cases of dementia are “mixed”, according to the Alzheimer’s Society, meaning ...

Businesses in St. Albans are coming together to bring awareness to Alzheimer’s and various other forms of dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can be hard to diagnose, because it is an uncommon type of dementia and does not cause memory problems at first. However, there are some ways to diagnose FTD including ...

What are the main issues of living with dementia as a younger person? Younger people with dementia experience a range of challenges, which are often different to those that older people face. Younger ...

Brain disease patients with a year to live could choose assisted dying under plans to be considered by MPs next week ...

Dementia is a syndrome that involves severe loss of cognitive abilities as a result of disease or injury. Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by ...

Reduce your dementia risk by 'keeping active and looking after your heart health' PA IMAGES "But actually, even if you are later in life, and even starting to have disease symptoms, it could still be ...

Huntington’s disease symptoms are linked to expanding DNA repeats (CAG) that become toxic in brain cells over time The "ticking DNA clock" accelerates after 80 repeats, killing neurons within ...

At the age of just 54, Geoff Pike was diagnosed with dementia, turning his family’s world upside down. ‘There were lots of tears, it was a nightmare for us,’ says his wife Helen, 59 ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. Experts can’t predict exactly who will develop Alzheimer’s disease, but several factors may increase or decrease the risk.

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