A new UC Davis study suggests that dementia patients can both receive and give caregiving in early stages of illness. (Getty Images) In cases of Alzheimer’s disease, it’s common for a spouse to take ...

Dementia is the gradual diminishing of memory over time. While researchers have tried to produce effective treatments for diseases that cause dementia like Alzheimer’s, many efforts have been ...

The size of the human brain has increased over time, a new finding that may help explain a previously reported decline in incident dementia. A secular trends analysis using brain imaging data from the ...

Navigating all the different aspects of a dementia diagnosis can be overwhelming. Dementia is a complex disease, and its effects on a patient’s life go far beyond the medical symptoms. It also affects ...

Neurons produced from frontotemporal dementia patients' skin biopsies using modern stem cell technology recapitulate the ...

Much of what piques my fear that I will develop the same illness that stole my mother (though develop seems to be the wrong word—this is the coming undone of cognition, of a life, after all), is the ...

In cases of Alzheimer’s disease, it’s common for a spouse to take on the role of caregiver. Research led by the University of California, Davis, suggests that patients can also support their ...