Doctors and other health care providers use a comprehensive tool to assess the seven stages of dementia in the elderly called the Global Deterioration Scale. Also known as the GDS, this trusted method ...

According to research, vascular dementia is slightly more common in men than women Alzheimer’s disease is not the only cruel condition to adversely affect brain function and rob sufferers of their ...

Dementia before age 80 is potentially preventable through early intervention on common vascular risk factors, according to research led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Findings ...

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine have developed a highly sensitive diagnostic that predicts a person's stage of dementia based on neurovascular and metabolic changes. They ...

Diabetic retinopathy severity, from nonproliferative to proliferative stages, is associated with an increased risk for vascular dementia.

A major new study suggests that maintaining good vascular health could substantially reduce dementia risk before age 80. Researchers followed more than 12,000 participants for 33 years and found that ...

Dr Ray O’Connor takes a look at the latest clinical studies on dementia, including its diagnosis and management ...

Figures from Alzheimer's Research UK suggest that as many as one in three young people living in the UK today can dementia during there lifetime. But, according to Dr Sten Ekberg, the condition can be ...

Even though Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 failed in Alzheimer's trial, some researchers are cautiously optimistic that obesity and diabetes drugs may have benefits for people with one of the most common forms ...