Rochester, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that helps clinicians identify brain activity patterns linked to nine types of dementia, including ...

Dementia is an umbrella term to describe cognitive (thinking) problems that are severe enough to affect everyday life. There ...

Science’s success at staving off death from heart disease or cancer has made another diagnosis more likely: Dementia.

While occasionally forgetting where you put your keys or not remembering something on your to-do list happens to all of us, frequent memory lapses may be an early sign of dementia, especially in women ...

A novel quantitative PET- and MRI-based imaging approach can objectively identify a recently recognized type of ...

Dear Carol: My mother is 96. She was quite sharp into her 90s, but since then, her condition has gradually deteriorated to where she lives contently in her own little world. My brother likes ...

The survival rates of people with early onset dementia-diagnosed before the age of 65-vary considerably by clinical type, but sex, age, family history and co-existing conditions aren't specific risk ...

Adults age 65 and older who completed five to six weeks of cognitive speed training—in this case, speed of processing ...

Eating certain foods, such as hot dogs, added sugars, French fries, excessive alcohol, high-sodium diets, and artificial ...