A WORD on the tip of the tongue or a forgotten birthday – everyone has occasional memory blanks. While forgetting things ...

Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia, which slowly erodes memory, thinking skills and the ability to ...

Knowing Dementia and Early Signs Dementia consists of a group of symptoms linked with disorders including Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, and Lewy body dementia rather than a sp ...

The risk of developing dementia may be double what was previously thought. But there are things the U.S. can do to help fight ...

Q. Two members of our book group have early signs of cognitive impairment. We have become so close after 10 years of being ...

The finding has implications for all of us, write Harvard physician-researchers Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

Discover a groundbreaking study that may help detect Alzheimer's in its early stages. Learn about the link between blood ...

With an estimated 6.9 million Americans aged 65 and older currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, the road to a cure seems ...

Current methods for tracking Alzheimer’s involve spinal taps, which are invasive, painful, and carry risks. A blood test ...

Declining blood levels of two molecules that occur naturally in the body track closely with worsening Alzheimer's disease, particularly in women. Levels were found to drop gradually, from women with ...

There is a potential link between Alzheimer's disease and the herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), which is a common cause for ...