or card games can help create more brain neurons, which can slow the decline of cognition and memory related to dementia. Dementia causes a progressive loss of a person’s cognitive (thinking ...

His new book, Mind Games, features more than 150 puzzles of all kinds and degrees of difficulty. It targets different areas of the brain aiming to improve cognition and help stave off dementia.

Boosting Brain Protein Levels May Slow Decline from ... impairment through boosting levels of a specific protein in the ... Games, Puzzles and Reading Can Slow Cognitive Decline in the Elderly ...

and frontotemporal dementia. Each type has its own distinct characteristics, but they all lead to a devastating decline in brain function. In the United States alone, nearly 7 million people are ...

Looking for simple ways to keep your brain ... activities," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with Alzheimer's disease being the most common type of dementia.

Dementia caused by traumatic brain injury is often static, whereas dementia caused by neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, is usually progressive and can eventually be fatal.

Both Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage help with dementia costs, but the deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance differ between the two programs. Physical changes in the brain are ...

Dementia is characterised by the build-up of different types of protein in the brain, which damages brain tissue and leads to cognitive decline. Molecular and cellular changes to the brain usually ...

But research suggests part of the picture is inflammation of certain circuitry in the brain and damage from this inflammation may be what drives the onset of dementia. "Depression is a major ...

Scientists are hoping that access to more than 1.6 million brain scans collected from patients across Scotland could help predict a person’s risk of dementia. A team of 20 researchers from the ...

“Better use of simple brain scans to predict dementia will lead to better understanding of dementia and potentially earlier diagnosis of its causes, which in turn will make development of new ...