Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 15-year-old girl in Scotland was diagnosed with childhood dementia the day before her fourth birthday, and her parents are ...

Parents who worry about a child who struggles to make friends, has difficulty communicating, or appears too fond of their own company have good reason to be concerned — not just because of early-life ...

A new study quantified young-onset dementia frequency across 204 countries and territories, and on regional and national levels — and found that it skyrocketed between 1990 and 2021. The study was ...

A family of a little girl with condition dubbed ‘childhood dementia’ are raising $6 million to get treatment approved by the FDA — after she was diagnosed when they spotted a child with the same ...

A heartbroken mum spotted her daughter’s “childhood Alzheimer’s” after she stopped talking aged two – and is now desperate to make memories before it’s “too late”. Five-year-old Esmay Ford was ...

The next year could be crucial in a five-year-old's battle with a rare form of childhood dementia, his mother believes. Tammy McDaid, from Swansea, said that instead of waking up excited to celebrate ...

Scott Chiesa receives funding from an Alzheimer's Research UK David Carr Fellowship. Francesca Farina receives funding from the Alzheimer's Association and the University of Chicago. Laura Booi does ...

"We have never recovered,” Sophia Scott's father said of her diagnosis Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...