Researchers in Japan discovered that Parkinson’s patients diagnosed in their 80s are far more likely to show signs of amyloid buildup, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s, even without dementia symptoms. The ...

New research suggests that depression in later life may be more than an emotional response to illness—it could be an early sign of serious brain disease. A new nationwide study published in General ...

Researchers from Denmark have uncovered strong evidence that depression often appears years before Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. The team, led by first author Christopher Rohde, analyzed ...

A new study has found that depression can be an early warning sign of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia, appearing up to eight years before diagnosis ...

Late-onset depression may be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease (PD) or Lewy Body dementia (LBD), according to a December study published in General Psychiatry. The study examined data from the ...

Poor sleep has been linked to an increased dementia risk, though we don’t yet know exactly how one affects the other. But roughly 90% of people with the sleep condition known as isolated REM sleep ...

When Janet Shipton sat down to write a holiday postcard to her aunt, the then 47-year-old didn’t imagine for a second that it would reveal the first symptom of early onset Parkinson’s. “I was in ...