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A new study links frailty to higher dementia risk, suggesting early intervention could help prevent it. A study led by a researcher from the University of Queensland has found that frailty raises the ...

In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons.

Researchers have linked disease-related proteins and genes to identify specific cellular pathways responsible for Alzheimer's genesis and progression. The proteins were gathered from cerebrospinal ...

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Six years after his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, 90-year-old Zelik Bocknek (Zel) refuses to slow down — and he believes his active ...

Excessive daytime sleepiness could be an early sign of a pre-dementia condition called motoric cognitive risk syndrome (MCR), ...

People who have a hard time staying awake during the day or struggle to be enthusiastic about activities may be at risk for a ...

This is alarming news for senior citizens with sleep struggles. Septuagenarians who experience excessive drowsiness during the day or a lack of enthusiasm for activities due to poor sleep habits may ...

Most cases of dementia are caused by a mixture of risk factors. A risk factor is something that affects our chances of developing a condition like dementia. For most of us our risk of dementia is made ...