Two decades after the Women’s Health Initiative study, evolving research on menopause hormone therapy is shedding new light on women’s brain health.

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, ...

Dementia is a group of disorders that gradually impair memory, thinking and daily functioning. Alzheimer's disease (AD), the ...

A new study from long-running U.S. cohort data suggest that even mild hearing loss could influence how the brain ages.

Contributors from the Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing outline dietary strategies that can help preserve cognitive ...

High physical activity in midlife and late life is linked with a significantly lower risk for dementia, a new study has found.

People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, according to a new study led by University College London researchers. Troponin is ...

It happens. You’re mid-sentence when you realize you totally forgot what you’re saying, or you’re driving to work—on a route you’ve traveled 100 times—but you take a wrong turn. The truth is that ...

Dementia is “one of the biggest health and social care crises we’re facing globally.” This the warning of Richard Oakley, associate director of research and innovation at leading UK charity ...

We know inhaling polluted air harms our lungs—but what about our brains? According to compelling new research, pollution may put you at higher risk of being hospitalized for one of the most common ...

A consultant neurologist at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Dr. Temitope Farombi, has urged Nigerians against stigmatising people living with dementia. She said Nigerians should have ...