Vascular dementia is the second most common type after Alzheimer's, affecting almost 200,000 people in the UK and making up as many as 20% of all cases. While age and genetics play a role in risk, ...

Exercise your brain,” experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New cases of dementia are estimated to double by 2060, but the good news is that about 45 percent of those cases may be ...

Cognitive decline has become a major public health concern in the United States. Between 2013 and 2023, the percentage of adults reporting cognitive disability rose from 5.3 percent to 7.4 percent, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts from the University of Cambridge carried out a study on 124,780 women to examine the effects of menopause on the brain and ...

We can control, or at least positively influence, the risk factors associated with the development of nearly half of all dementias, says a new study from Skåne University Hospital in Sweden.

In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of The Day, a neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher shares how playing cognitive speed training ...

Stretching your brain might be the better description. Do a crossword puzzle a day, and you may just get good at crosswords. Instead, research increasingly shows that a variety of habits and hobbies ...

It’s never too late to start. With dementia cases expected to increase over the next 25 years, new research has found a way to significantly lower the risk of the degenerative disease. All it takes is ...