Alzheimers Disease News

British health professionals have called for a change in the treatment of dementia patients after an official report warned that wrongly prescribed anti-psychotic medicines are causing the d... Read more

According to British experts memory and language tests can diagnose 'hidden' early dementia.

While most dementias are missed for years as the symptoms are not clear until conside... Read more

Martin Prince and colleagues discuss the treatment of dementia in the fifth of PLoS Medicine's series of articles on mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middl... Read more

A rare brain disorder that causes early dementia is highly hereditary, a new study has revealed. The study is published in the November 3, 2009, issue of Neurology®, the medical journ... Read more

Researchers have revealed that the loss of memory from insomnia (lack of sleep) may be reversible.

It is known that sleep deprivation can have cognitive consequences, including l... Read more

French researchers have thrown light on the slower rates of memory loss amongst those suffering Alzheimer's disease and diabetes as compared to those who have just Alzheimer’s.

A stu... Read more

Older patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have shorter hospital stays, and have a fifty percent higher rate of death than those without the disorder, a new st... Read more

According to a study the condition of forgetfulness caused by insomnia maybe improved with the use of drugs.

Lead researcher Ted Abel, University of Pennsylvania, found that the ... Read more

Air pollution can significantly increase the risk of memory problems in the elderly, reveals a new study.

German researchers have found that women who had lived near busy roads f... Read more

You can stop your ageing grandparents from becoming forgetful by simply asking them to surf the net, for a new study has found that Googling can consistently stimulate brain to slow or even ... Read more