Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI): Learn how to identify it
What is Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)? Mild cognitive impairment is the loss of cognitive functions. Impairments are usually in processes such as attention, memory […]
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Parkinson’s Disease Dementia: Two related diseases
Parkinson’s disease dementia. Both are words that, when alone, provoke a sense of dismay. Together, they can be catastrophic without a capable medical team […]
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Parkinson’s Treatment: How To Manage This Disease
Parkinson’s Treatment. The name usually evokes images of tremoring hands, countless medical appointments, or the doom and gloom fate of disease progression. Despite these […]
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Senescence: Aging Cells That Drain Youth?
What is senescence? How does it affect the cells in organisms? How does it affect health? Should humans accept senescence as a natural form […]
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Types of exercise: Different types of exercise and their benefits
Types of exercise. Cue the groans! This blog post is all about the benefits of different types of exercise. Yes! You read that correctly! […]
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Rare Mental Disorders: Here is a list to the oddest mental disorders
Mental health disorders have gotten a bad reputation in the past, but as new information is being discovered, we’re able to learn more and […]
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What Is Early Onset Dementia? Signs And Symptoms
Early onset dementia. Imagine you are at your friend’s 50th birthday gathering and you forget everyone’s name, how you got there and where you […]
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Vascular Dementia: Causes, Symptoms and Prevention
The term dementia is familiar to everyone, however, what is Vascular Dementia? Throughout this article will explain what is this type of dementia, its […]
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Hippocampus: the orchestra director in the deepest part of our brain
Hippocampus. Have you ever gone blank and forgotten what you were going to say? Our brain is full of important data and information that […]
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What is Echolalia?: Its Purpose and What It Means
Echolalia is a natural part of language acquisition. “It’s a beautiful day!” said the mother, to which the child echoed “It’s a beautiful day!” […]
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Are You a Mozart or a Macklemore? : Ways Music Helps the Brain
“Without music, life would be a mistake”. Friedrich Nietzche may have been skeptical about a lot of things, but the power of music was […]
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How To Communicate With Someone Who Has Advanced Dementia: Validation Therapy
Do you not understand why you have to continuously repeat the same thing to your family member with dementia? Does it bother you that […]
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Dementia Home Care: What You Need To Know
Dementia Home Care: What You Need To Know So what do you do if one of your loved ones has been diagnosed with dementia […]
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Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors
Brain changes due to poor sleep increases stroke and dementia risks in seniors Sleep disturbance in elderly persons is associated with brain changes such […]
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Eating baked or broiled fish once a week boosts brain health
Eating baked or broiled fish once a week boost brain health By now, most of us are aware that omega-3 fatty acid in fish […]
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Eye and smell tests may detect Alzheimer’s onset
Eye and smell tests may detect Alzheimer’s onset Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is a progressive brain condition that damages and […]
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A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people.
A protein, normally active in fetuses, may also protect the neurons in older people. Along with symptoms of cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease patients often […]
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Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia
Brain scans may one day be used to predict dementia. Using brain scans, researchers were able to monitor mental decline over a two-year period […]
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Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified
Mysterious brain clumps behind dementia identified. Certain forms of dementia may be caused by a gene mutation that makes proteins in the brain clump […]
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Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them
Alzheimer’s patients can’t make decisions easily, so you must guide them. It is very common for Alzheimer’s dementia patients to say No. There is […]
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Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat
Senate panel: Dementia a $20 trillion threat. The United States has to continue to make funding scientific research on Alzheimer’s disease and other causes […]
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Dementia Prevention?
Vitamin D and calcium supplements taken together in low doses offered no protection against dementia in a large U.S. study of older women
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Childhood brain injury could lead to crime later in life
Childhood brain injury could lead to crime later in life. People who suffer a traumatic brain injury as a child are more likely to […]
Continue reading »Alzheimer’s signs show in young brain. Scientists studying Alzheimer’s disease are increasingly finding clues that the brain begins to deteriorate years before a person shows […]
Continue reading »Britain is seeking a million “dementia friends” who will be trained to understand the illness and help those living with it, Prime Minister David Cameron […]
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