Comparing the brain MRIs of people with and without dementia, researchers have identified an accurate ‘signature’ that may signal a person’s risk of developing the disease five to 10 years before ...

A recent study by the Laboratory for Neuro-Analysis and Imaging (LANAI) at UMass Chan Medical School highlights how subcortical brain structures degenerate in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal ...

Adhering in midlife to the MIND diet -- a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets -- was linked with higher volumes in certain brain regions, data ...

When it comes to tau tangles, cortical deposits receive the lion’s share of scientists’ attention, but it is the tiny subcortical regions where tangles originate that might set the course for ...

Findings from a novel study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, suggest that using a specialized diffusion weighted MRI scan to monitor the ...

Longer REM latency and increased light sleep percentages are linked to thinner AD-signature cortex on MRI, regardless of patient race or ethnicity.

A new machine learning model can predict the eventual occurrence of dementia, according to a new study. Its authors say the model is greater than 80% accurate and can predict disease up to nine years ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Those who developed dementia tended to be male, alcohol/tobacco users and APOE e4 positive. Gray matter volume, ...

Share on Pinterest The average human brain has been growing over the last century, according to research. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images Dementia is a growing problem worldwide, with numbers predicted to ...

Older patients with Parkinson disease (PD) were found to have a higher incidence of dementia compared with younger patients. However, the difference may have to do with different pathologies causing ...