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 ...

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Share on Pinterest Any amount of alcohol raises dementia risk, a new study suggests. Image credit: Olga Shumytskaya/Getty Images. There is no level of alcohol consumption that does not increase ...

Dr Harry Pritchard will develop new animal models to study the mechanisms behind reduced blood flow to the brain in Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. Through his work, Dr Pritchard aims to ...

Each 5-point increase in baseline Brain Care Score was significantly ... smoking, aerobic activities, and sleep); and emotional measures (stress, social relationships, and meaning in life) to ...

One in three of us will develop dementia ... lighter physical activities saw a benefit. Aerobic exercise gets your heart pumping, delivering more nutrients to body and brain.

Diagnosis and MRI scanning is time consuming, inefficient and expensive. Professor Parker’s project will test a special ultra-fast type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan originally designed for ...

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.

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 ...

Background Increased rates of brain atrophy on serial MRI are frequently used as a surrogate marker of disease progression in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. However, the extent to which they ...