Dementia

October 18, 2023

Inching closer to critical milestones in Alzheimer's disease research

According to the World Health Organization, over 50 million people worldwide live with dementia, and approximately 60-70 per cent of those cases are due to Alzheimer's disease.

October 13, 2023
Bruce Willis 'isn't totally verbal' amid battle with dementia

FTD is an all-encompassing term for a group of brain disorders that threatens, as the name implies, the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
October 02, 2023
These five behaviour changes after age of 50 are indicators of dementia

Identifying those at risk of dementia by recognising later-life changes in cognition is a step towards potentially preventing the disease or its progression.
September 07, 2023
Keeping a healthy heart is key to ward off Alzheimer’s, dementia risks

The study shows that atherosclerosis and its associated risk factors, the main cause of cardiovascular disease, are also implicated in the cerebral alterations typically found in Alzheimer’s disease.
June 16, 2023
New diagnostic tools for early detection of Alzheimer's disease underway

Researchers have been working tirelessly to develop innovative solutions for early Alzheimer's detection and prominent among research is the development of blood-based biomarker tests.
May 17, 2023
Rare Alzheimer's mutation delays onset of disease in US man

The man belongs to the same family of which 6,000 family members carry the gene presenilin-1, or PSEN1 - commonly known to raise the risk of Alzheimer's.
May 10, 2023
Genetic risk factors identified for non-Alzheimer's dementia

A research team from the US National Institutes of Health discovered several structural variants that could be risk factors to Lewy body dementia and frontotemporal dementia.

Dementia

Inching closer to critical milestones in Alzheimer's disease research

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Bruce Willis 'isn't totally verbal' amid battle with dementia

These five behaviour changes after age of 50 are indicators of dementia

Keeping a healthy heart is key to ward off Alzheimer’s, dementia risks

New diagnostic tools for early detection of Alzheimer's disease underway

Rare Alzheimer's mutation delays onset of disease in US man

Genetic risk factors identified for non-Alzheimer's dementia

Memory, learning skills can be impacted by lasting chronic pain: Study

Meitra Hospital Kozhikode launches speciality memory clinic

Know A to Z of Alzheimer's disease that eluded medical science