For decades, dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, was treated as untouchable. Families watched loved ones fade, doctors could offer only reassurance and coping strategies, and research seemed to ...

A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong ...

Dementia is a loss of brain function that affects memory, thinking, judgment, behavior, and language. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. While there's no cure for dementia, ...

Research conducted by the University of Cambridge and the University of Exeter examined large datasets to uncover correlations between medications and cognitive health. The findings suggest that ...

Psychotropic medications commonly used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are associated with increased risk for dementia in older veterans, new research shows. "Patients diagnosed with ...

A recent study shows that combining magnetic brain scans with computer models can safely measure how dementia medications affect living human brains. This approach could replace invasive tests and ...

A major new study finds people with type 1 diabetes face nearly three times the dementia risk. But lifestyle changes and new ...

A massive UK study of more than 165,000 dementia patients has uncovered troubling new evidence about risperidone, a commonly ...